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Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

William Wordsworth

Power, Names, Imagination

'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 14, l. 190

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

William Wordsworth

Art, Real, Power

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”