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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

William Wordsworth
Art, Real, Power

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Nature, Art
'The Tables Turned' (1798)

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)

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

William Wordsworth
Art, Moving, Perception
William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.3779, Delphi Classics

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth
Art, Wall, Artist

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

William Wordsworth
Summer, Song, Art
'Hart-leap Well' (1800) pt. 2, l.1

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

William Wordsworth
Beauty, Beautiful, Art
William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.402, Wordsworth Editions

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

William Wordsworth
Art, Pride, Hands

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

William Wordsworth
Art, Soul, Spirit
1799 'Influence of Natural Objects', l.1-4 (published in The Friend 28 Dec 1809).

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

William Wordsworth
Art, Eye, Faces
William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.329

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

William Wordsworth
Art, Strong, Fate
William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.339

Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.

William Wordsworth
Mother, Dream, Art
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.388

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

William Wordsworth
Art, Garden, Design
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.291, e-artnow

With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Art, Grace
1802 'To the Daisy', stanza 1 (published 1807).

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