William Wordsworth Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”

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

“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.”

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

“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

“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.”

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.”