William Wordsworth Quotes


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.


Citations

Wordsworth, William. The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814, p. 308.

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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
  • Born: April 7, 1770
  • Died: April 23, 1850
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).