''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,''
William Wordsworth Quotations
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I was the Dreamer, they the Dream; I roam'd
Delighted, through the motley spectacle;
Gowns grave or gaudy, Doctors, Students, Streets,
Lamps, Gateways, Flocks of Churches, Courts and To...
Delighted, through the motley spectacle;
Gowns grave or gaudy, Doctors, Students, Streets,
Lamps, Gateways, Flocks of Churches, Courts and To...
''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.''
''So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.''
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.''
And open field, through which the pathway wound,
And homeward led my steps. Magnificent
The morning rose, in memorable pomp,
Glorious as e'er I had beheld—in front,
The sea la...
And homeward led my steps. Magnificent
The morning rose, in memorable pomp,
Glorious as e'er I had beheld—in front,
The sea la...
''I made no vows, but vows
Were then made for me; bond unknown to me
Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly,
A dedicated Spirit.''
Were then made for me; bond unknown to me
Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly,
A dedicated Spirit.''
''Knowledge and increase of enduring joy
From the great Nature that exists in works
Of mighty Poets.''
From the great Nature that exists in works
Of mighty Poets.''
''No mate, no comrade Lucy knew;
She dwelt on a wide moor,
MThe sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!''
She dwelt on a wide moor,
MThe sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!''
''With all its solemn imagery, its rocks,
Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received
Into the bosom of the steady lake.''
Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received
Into the bosom of the steady lake.''
''All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.''
''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.''
''Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,''
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,''
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome
Of what the mighty city is herself,
To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
Living amid the same perpetual whirl
Of trivial objects, melted and r...
Of what the mighty city is herself,
To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
Living amid the same perpetual whirl
Of trivial objects, melted and r...
Caught by the spectacle my mind turned round
As with the might of waters; an apt type
This label seemed of the utmost we can know,
Both of ourselves and of the universe;
And, on th...
As with the might of waters; an apt type
This label seemed of the utmost we can know,
Both of ourselves and of the universe;
And, on th...
Careless of books, yet having felt the power
Of Nature, by the gentle agency
Of natural objects, led me on to feel
For passions that were not my own, and think
(At random and imper...
Of Nature, by the gentle agency
Of natural objects, led me on to feel
For passions that were not my own, and think
(At random and imper...