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.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.
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 in solitude.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
To begin, begin.
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
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.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
The Child is the father of the Man.
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.
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.