“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
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
ArtAll Quotes by William Wordsworth
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
Power“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“The child is father of the man.”
Dad“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
Life“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
Nature“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
Art“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“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“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“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“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“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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Poetry“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
Nature“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”
Age“Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.”
Hope“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
Nature“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
Sports“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
Age