William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

25 quotes

Known primarily as an English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. With equal ease, William Wordsworth moved between Nature and Power, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 32 quotes from William Wordsworth, each offering a different angle on Nature, Power, Music, Life, and Business. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Faith is a passionate intuition."

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

— William Wordsworth

Poetry

All Quotes by William Wordsworth

“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

— William Wordsworth

Best

“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.”

— William Wordsworth

Music

“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

Future

“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.”

— William Wordsworth

Beauty

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”

— William Wordsworth

Faith

“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”

— William Wordsworth

Power

“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.”

— William Wordsworth

Music

“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

Life

“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

— William Wordsworth

Best

“The child is father of the man.”

— William Wordsworth

Dad

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth

Nature

“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.”

— William Wordsworth

Business

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth

Nature

“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”

— William Wordsworth

Hope

“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”

— William Wordsworth

Sports

“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

Strength

“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”

— William Wordsworth

Nature

“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”

— William Wordsworth

Wisdom

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

— William Wordsworth

Art

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

— William Wordsworth

Poetry