Quotes from William Wordsworth
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
— William Wordsworth
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
— William Wordsworth
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
— William Wordsworth
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
— William Wordsworth
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
— William Wordsworth
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
— William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
— William Wordsworth
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
— William Wordsworth
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
— William Wordsworth
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
— William Wordsworth