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About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was an English romantic poet. He is considered one of the most influential people in starting the English Romantic literature movement.
His Work
In 1793, Wordsworth published his first poems. The first two were titled An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In the years after this, he worked on the famous Lyrical Ballads with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was a very influential work for the English Romantic movement. Wordsworth then wrote a play titled The Borderers. After marrying and having children, William Wordsworth wrote his most famous work titled The Prelude, which is an autobiographical text.
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Famous quotes by William Wordsworth
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.William Wordsworth
Faith is a passionate intuition.William Wordsworth
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.William Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.William Wordsworth
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.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
I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.William Wordsworth
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.William Wordsworth
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.William Wordsworth
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.William Wordsworth
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.William Wordsworth
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.William Wordsworth
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.William Wordsworth
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.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
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.William Wordsworth
The child is father of the man.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
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.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
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
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.William Wordsworth
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
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William Wordsworth's Popularity
William Wordsworth was a famous English poet, who was born on April 7, 1770. As a person born on this date, William Wordsworth is listed in our database as the 10th most popular celebrity for the day (April 7).
People born on April 7 fall under the Zodiac sign of Aries, the Ram. William Wordsworth is the 374th most popular Aries.
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