William Wordsworth Quotes

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

I'm only interested in poetry.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

Law dies, books never.

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.