William Wordsworth Quotes on Growth
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Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
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Dear Child of Nature, let them rail!
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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
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We feel that we are greater than we know.
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How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold.
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Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.'
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And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills;
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Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.
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More skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy.
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.