William Wordsworth Quotes


Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.


Citations

Wordsworth, William. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Poems, in Two Volumes, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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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).