William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. William Wordsworth quotes on love and nature will inspire you.
Best William Wordsworth Quotes
- “That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” ~ William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth quotes on nature
- “Memories… images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner’s eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “We have within ourselves enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Let Nature be your teacher” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “We live by admiration, hope, and love.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Look for the stars, you’ll say that there are none; / Lookup a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!” ~ William Wordsworth
- “My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.” ~ William Wordsworth -
“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “All that we behold is full of blessings.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Our birth is but asleep and forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“Rest and be thankful.” ~ 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
- “Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “There is a comfort in the strength of love; ‘Twill makes a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together… humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Great is the glory, for the strife, is hard!” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “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
