William Wordsworth Quotes

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—