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William Wordsworth Quotes

English - Poet | April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

Flower Freedom Free Down Bold Bloom

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

Nature World Late Too Much See Us

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

William Wordsworth

Beauty Mind Perception Dignity Know

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

William Wordsworth

Business Man Doing Know Modern Most

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

Age Old Age Night Bright Old Lovely

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

William Wordsworth

Now More See Things Seen Which

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

William Wordsworth

Nature Suffering Dark Obscure Shares

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

William Wordsworth

Sleep Clouds Glory Birth Forgetting

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

William Wordsworth

Good Man Evil You Moral Wood

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth

Thinking Living More High Adore

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

Business Tired Solitude World Sick

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

Mind Acting Now Unknown Savage

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