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• Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Half, Forgotten

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.54

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

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Heart, True Beauty

  "To ____ ('Let other bards of angels sing...')". Poem by William Wordsworth, www.bartleby.com. 1824.

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• 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

  Beauty, Perception, Mind

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

  William Wordsworth

  Cheerful, Delight, Spirit

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.186

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

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Men, Lasts

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.381

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• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sports, Retirement, Golf

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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• 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

  Love, Being Strong, Heart

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.356, Pearson Education

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• 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

  Knowledge, Mean, Soul

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• Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, World, Care

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.151

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• Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

  William Wordsworth

  Action, Theory

  "William Wordsworth, a biography".

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• One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Tongue, Faces

  William Wordsworth, “The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale”

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• And I am happy when I sing.

  William Wordsworth

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.106

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

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Blow

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• 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

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Memories, Soul, Passed Away

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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• As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

  William Wordsworth

  Change, Delight, Lows

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.28

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• 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

  Expression, Spirit, Poetry Is

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Way, Casual

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

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• Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

  William Wordsworth

  Writing, Artist, Taste

  Letter to Lady Beaumont, 21 May 1807

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• But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Humanity, Hearing

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• 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

  Business, Tired, Self

  William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We live by admiration, hope and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Hope, Appreciation

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.587

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• 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

  Stars, Light, Sight

  William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.369, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

  William Wordsworth

  Sad, Nature, Dark

  'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

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• Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

  William Wordsworth

  Glory, Strife, Hard

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.186

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