William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

Poet

William Wordsworth was an English poet known for his role in the Romantic movement and his profound connection to nature, particularly in works like 'The Prelude.'

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Born
April 7, 1770
Died
April 23, 1850
Quotes
476
Rank
#62

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"What is a Poet? 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; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them."

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"Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away."

Men Grieving Shade
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"And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."

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"Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone."

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"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; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune."

Flower Sleep Heart
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"The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society."

Passion Together Empires
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"Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity."

Glory Props Infirmity
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"Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author."

Feelings Doe Tedious
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"This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed."

Tree Decay Form
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"We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted."

Daisies Thee Wanted
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"That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair."

Time Hair Crime
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"On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away."

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"A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!"

Love Slave Should
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"Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring."

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"And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man."

Heart Men Thinking
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"Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated."

War Army Snow
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"Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"

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"Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance."

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