William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
@LakePoet

Walked 180,000 miles. Wrote poems about most of them. The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1798·Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

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

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1798·Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

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

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1807·I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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.

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1800·Preface to Lyrical Ballads

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

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1798·Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1807·Ode: Intimations of Immortality

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now for ever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth
@LakePoet·1807·Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.