William Wordsworth Quotes


The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.


Citations

Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807, p. 93.

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Where societies have elderly people in households, it tells us much about the values of the society and the culture. In some societies, people do not live to be elderly, and in others, those that do are not very much respected.


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).