William Wordsworth Poet Quotations

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

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

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.

By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.

The Child is the father of the Man.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.