Top 9 Wordsworth Quotes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Poetry, Wordsworth, Deprivation

Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

Depression, Wordsworth, Daffodil

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Irving Layton

Genius, Wordsworth, Written

Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Walter Pater

Facts, Wordsworth, Natural

Walter Pater (1901). “The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'”

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

Thom Gunn

Book, Generations, Wordsworth