110+ William Wordsworth Quotes On Nature, Death And Education

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who lived from 1770 to 1850. He was one of the most influential poets of his time, writing about nature, emotion, and the power of the imagination. His most famous works include "The Prelude," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," and "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Following is our collection on famous quotes by William Wordsworth on nature, love, life.

Top 10 William Wordsworth Quotes

1. 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.
2. How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
3. That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
4. Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
5. one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
6. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
7. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
8. Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
9. Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
10. The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth Image Quotes

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. — William Wordsworth

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. — William Wordsworth

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. — William Wordsworth

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. — William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Short Quotes

• Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
• Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
• Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
• The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
• Rest and be thankful.
• The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
• All that we behold is full of blessings.
• The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

William Wordsworth Quotes About Nature

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. — William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: 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! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. — William Wordsworth

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. — William Wordsworth

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes! — William Wordsworth

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. — William Wordsworth

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years. — William Wordsworth

Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life. — William Wordsworth

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature. — William Wordsworth

Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About Love

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

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love. — William Wordsworth

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart. — William Wordsworth

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. — William Wordsworth

That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. — William Wordsworth

Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. — William Wordsworth

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. — William Wordsworth

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About Life

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. — William Wordsworth

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death. — William Wordsworth

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us. — William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man. — William Wordsworth

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. — William Wordsworth

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man. — William Wordsworth

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. — William Wordsworth

A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight. — William Wordsworth

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About Death

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. — William Wordsworth

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees. — William Wordsworth

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket. — William Wordsworth

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. — William Wordsworth

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains. — William Wordsworth

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! — William Wordsworth

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed. — William Wordsworth

One of those heavenly days that cannot die. — William Wordsworth

And mighty poets in their misery dead. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About Poetry

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science — William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge — William Wordsworth

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. — William Wordsworth

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. — William Wordsworth

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings. — William Wordsworth

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. — William Wordsworth

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity. — William Wordsworth

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind? — William Wordsworth

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About Beauty

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. — William Wordsworth

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. — William Wordsworth

The human mind is capable of excitement 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. — William Wordsworth

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections. — William Wordsworth

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. — William Wordsworth

Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. — William Wordsworth

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. — William Wordsworth

He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear. William Winter, Love's Queen. The unconquerable pang of despised love. — William Wordsworth

That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone! — William Wordsworth

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About Mind

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. — William Wordsworth

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. — William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. — William Wordsworth

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world! — William Wordsworth

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. — William Wordsworth

Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love! — William Wordsworth

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. — William Wordsworth

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. — William Wordsworth

In years that bring the philosophic mind. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Quotes About World

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence. — William Wordsworth

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. — William Wordsworth

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. — William Wordsworth

One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact. — William Wordsworth

Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised — William Wordsworth

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure. — William Wordsworth

My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind. — William Wordsworth

Far from the world I walk, and from all care. — William Wordsworth

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. — William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world. — William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Famous Quotes And Sayings

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. — William Wordsworth

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there. — William Wordsworth

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope. — William Wordsworth

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. — William Wordsworth

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude — William Wordsworth

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. — William Wordsworth

Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun. — William Wordsworth

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! — William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. — William Wordsworth

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. — William Wordsworth

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. — William Wordsworth

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. — William Wordsworth

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth

The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky! — William Wordsworth

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. — William Wordsworth

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again! — William Wordsworth

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. — William Wordsworth

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. — William Wordsworth

Habit rules the unreflecting herd. — William Wordsworth

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. — William Wordsworth

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. — William Wordsworth

There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. — William Wordsworth

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. — William Wordsworth

The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. — William Wordsworth

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together. — William Wordsworth

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant — William Wordsworth

Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke. — William Wordsworth

A brotherhood of venerable trees. — William Wordsworth

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude. — William Wordsworth

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? — William Wordsworth

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. — William Wordsworth

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. — William Wordsworth

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! — William Wordsworth

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises. — William Wordsworth

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. — William Wordsworth

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. — William Wordsworth

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. — William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

Great is the glory, for the strife is hard! — William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth

Faith is a passionate intuition. — William Wordsworth

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight! — William Wordsworth

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. — William Wordsworth

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man? — William Wordsworth

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same! — William Wordsworth

The child is the father of the man. — William Wordsworth

Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! — William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. — William Wordsworth

Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be. — William Wordsworth

Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. — William Wordsworth

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. — William Wordsworth

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!. — William Wordsworth

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. — William Wordsworth

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. — William Wordsworth

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. — William Wordsworth

Life Lessons by William Wordsworth

1. William Wordsworth teaches us to appreciate the beauty of nature and to find joy in the simple things in life. He encourages us to be mindful of our thoughts and feelings and to draw strength from our inner peace.
2. He reminds us to be humble and to stay true to ourselves, to be kind to others, and to stay connected to our roots.
3. He also encourages us to be creative and to express our emotions through art, poetry, and music.