Creative Quotations from . . .
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850) born on
Apr 07
English poet. "His "Lyrical Ballads," 1798 are noted for their worship of nature and humanitarianism; poet laureate, 1843-50."
 
   
F
The youth who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended:
At length the man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day."

R
"The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination."
A
"Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?"
N
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
K
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Ode, Intimations of Immortality," 5."
R: "In "Pearls of Wisdom," ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987."
A: ""Home at Grasmere," written 1800; published as "The Recluse," 1888."
N: ""Miscellaneous Sonnets," 1827."
K: ""Tax Not the Royal Saint.""



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