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## William Wordsworth quotes on perception

1. > A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.

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2. > Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.

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3. > O Blithe newcomer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?

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4. > Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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5. > The eye- it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

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6. > And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

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7. > The grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.

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8. > And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine.

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9. > There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

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