William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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On Action:

Action is transitory,—a step, a blow;
The motion of a muscle, this way or that.

The Borderers

On Danger:

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Character of the Happy Warrior

On Life:

There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble living and the noble dead.

The Prelude

On Poet:

The light that never was, on sea or land;
The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm

On Life:

Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life.

Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey

On Simplicity:

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

On Joy:

And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.

The Fountain

On Nature:

Two voices are there: one is of the sea,
One of the mountains, each a mighty voice.

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

On Soul:

But shapes that come not at an earthly call
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.

Dion

Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.

The Brothers
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