William Wordsworth Quotes on Art
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Is there not An art, a music, and a stream of words That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Wordsworth went to the lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.