Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPoetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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And I am happy when I sing.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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Rest and be thankful.
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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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.
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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
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The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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Often in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.
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