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What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

William Wordsworth
Passion, Men, Soul
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

William Wordsworth
Pride, Sorrow, Pleasure
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.158

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

William Wordsworth
Lakes, Water, Feelings

I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation.

William Wordsworth
Children, Heart, Sea
"The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Excursion".

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

William Wordsworth
Thinking, Hair, Boredom
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.236

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

William Wordsworth
Daughter, Art, Light
'Ode to Duty' (1807)

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

William Wordsworth
Heart, Eye, Tears
William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.231

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

William Wordsworth
Lying, Home, Clouds
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

William Wordsworth
Grace, Innocent, Divine
'Evening Voluntaries' (1835) 4

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth
Wisdom, Greatness, Men
William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.542, Delphi Classics

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

William Wordsworth
Simple, Childhood, Liberty
William Wordsworth, Alan Liu, James Muir (2003). “William Wordsworth”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

William Wordsworth
Fear, Future, Past
William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.187

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

William Wordsworth
Sea, Voice, Silence
William Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper”

This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

William Wordsworth
Beauty, Morning, Lying
'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (1807)

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

William Wordsworth
Stars, Flower, Space
1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.

William Wordsworth
Running, Gratitude, Heart
William Wordsworth, “Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman”

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Kindness, Heart
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Flower, Bird
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.118

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

William Wordsworth
Angel, Light, Perfect
'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

William Wordsworth
Dark, Dust, Together
'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 340

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

William Wordsworth
Insult
William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.112

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Mind, Mood
1798 'Lines Written in Early Spring', stanza 1.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

William Wordsworth
Spring, Power, Men
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907). “Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855”

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

William Wordsworth
Divinity, May, Divine
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.341

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

William Wordsworth
Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307

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