“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Poetry
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
PoetryAll Quotes by William Wordsworth
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
Best“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“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
Art“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”
Age“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
Nature“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
Nature“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”
Hope“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“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“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“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Best“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“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
Faith“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
Life“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
Wisdom“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
Age“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
Power“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
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.”
Business