William Wordsworth Quotes

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Take time to be quiet.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

My hours are peaceful centuries.