6 William Wordsworth Quotes on Creativity

William Wordsworth quotes on creativity

26. Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose types of things through all degrees.

42. 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.

59. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

60. A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

87. What is a Poet?...He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

182. Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.