William Wordsworth Quotations
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''Where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.''
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.''
''we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.''
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.''
''With an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.''
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.''
''my brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.''
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.''
''Hearing often-times
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.''
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.''
''For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.''
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.''
''Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought,
That givest to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion,''
Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought,
That givest to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion,''
''that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lightened:—''
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lightened:—''
Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows
Like harmony in music; there is a dark
Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, makes them cling together
In one socie...
Like harmony in music; there is a dark
Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, makes them cling together
In one socie...
''in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.''
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.''
''That blessed mood
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lightened.''
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lightened.''
''the soul,
Remembering how she felt, but what she felt
Remembering not, retains an obscure sense
Of possible sublimity,''
Remembering how she felt, but what she felt
Remembering not, retains an obscure sense
Of possible sublimity,''