Quotes by William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
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 w — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
Such views the youthful Bard allure,But, heedless of the following gloom,He deems their colours shall endure'Till peace — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
For I have learnedTo look on nature, not as in the hourOf thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimesThe still, sad music — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in due course of time, o — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
I heard a thousand blended notesWhile in a grove I sate reclined,In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughtsBring sad thou — William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads