Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHO joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
More William Wordsworth Quotes
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
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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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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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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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May books and nature be their early joy!
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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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We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
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Let Nature be your teacher.
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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet’s dream.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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Mathematics is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch’d in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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