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William Wordsworth [1770-1850] English

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems)

Blank verse, Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Nature, Life, Age, Best, Business, Music, Power, Sympathy, Art, Attitude, Beauty, Communication, Dad, Faith, Freedom, Future, Gardening, Hope, Love, Motivational, Poetry, Sad, Sports, Strength, Teacher, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.	Nature, Teacher	101
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.	Future, Life	102
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.	Best, Life, Love	103
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.		104
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.	Life, Power	105
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.	Gardening	106
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.	Music, Nature, Sad	107
The child is father of the man.	Dad	108
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.	Nature	109
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.	Art	110
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.	Business	111
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.	Communication	112
To begin, begin.	Motivational	113
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.		114
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.	Beauty	115
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.		116
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.	Nature	117
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.	Strength, Sympathy	118
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.	Nature	119
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.	Best	120
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.	Power	121
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.	Wisdom	122
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.	Age	123
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.	Freedom	124
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.	Business	125
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.		126
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.	Attitude	201
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.	Nature	202
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.	Music	203
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.	Hope, Sympathy	204
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.		205
Faith is a passionate intuition.	Faith	206
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.		207
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.	Poetry	208
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.		209
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.	Age	210
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.	Sports	211

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