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William Wordsworth Quotes

«And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.»
«So build we up the being that we are.»
«So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!»
«Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;The Form remains, the Function never dies.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: glide, glides
«One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: sages, vernal
«The sweetest thing that ever grew / Beside a human door!»
«Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.»
«The tendency, too potent in itself,Of use and custom to bow down the soulUnder a growing weight of vulgar sense,And substitute a universe of deathFor that which moves with light and life informed,Actual, divine, and true.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: bow down
«O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice?»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: cuckoo, wandering
«The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: graze, grazes, grazing