“Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know,/ Are a substantial world, both pure and good:/ Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,/ Our pastime and our happiness will grow.” - “ Personal Talk” “The light that never was, on sea or land,/ The consecration, and the poet's dream.” - “ Elegiac Stanzas” “No bird, but an invisible thing,/ A voice, a mystery.” - “ To the Cuckoo” “I travelled among unknown men,/ In lands beyond the sea / Nor, England! did I know till then/ What love I bore to thee.” - “ I Travelled Among Unknown Men” “Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.” - “ A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags” “While with an eye made quiet by the power/ Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,/ We see into the life of things.” - “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” “.Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her.” - “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” “That best portion of a good man's life,/ His little, nameless, unremembered, acts/ Of kindness and of love.” - “ Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” “I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils / Beside the lake, beneath the trees,/ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” - “ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” His ethereal imagery and lyrical style shone in each line as he painted a picture with his words. William Wordsworth wrote hundreds of poems during his career. “There is/ One great society alone on earth:/ The noble Living and the noble Dead.” “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very Heaven!” “Huge and mighty forms, that do not live/ Like living men, moved slowly through the mind/ By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.” and spirits overwrought/ Were making night do penance for a day/ Spent in a round of strenuous idleness.” “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.” “Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows/ Like harmony in music there is a dark/ Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles/ Discordant elements, makes them cling together/ In one society.” “Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up/ Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.” It is an autobiographical poem that was intended as an introduction to his unfinished poem The Recluse. One of Wordsworth’s best-remembered and most remarkable works is The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind An Autobiographical Poem - better known as The Prelude for short. “Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.” - Lyrical Ballads “Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science …” - Lyrical Ballads “He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind…” - Lyrical Ballads “For the human mind is capable of being excited 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.” - Lyrical Ballads “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility…” - Lyrical Ballads “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” - Letter to his wife, Mary (April 29, 1812) in The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth “.Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished…” - Letter to Lady Beaumont (May 21, 1807) Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.” - quoted in Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions (June 30, 2010) “Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. This collection single-handedly helped launch the Romantic movement in England. However, he did voice his thoughts on his craft in letters and in the preface to Lyrical Ballads, a poetry collection he wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth usually expressed himself through his poetry.
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