Quotes by William Wordsworth

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

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

"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 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."

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."

"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."

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

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

"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."

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

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

"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."

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

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