Wordsworth Quotations

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

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.

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.

Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.

Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between.

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions