8 William Wordsworth Quotes on Society

William Wordsworth quotes on society

2. And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

14. Rapine, avarice, expense This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

37. The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

77. These feeble and fastidious times.

85. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

134. There is One great society alone on earth: The noble Living and the noble Dead.

139. Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

179. Society became my glittering bride.