One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Quote by William Wordsworth

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking...

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking...

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too...

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too...

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force...

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force...

Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or...

Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or...

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of...

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of...

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

To begin, begin.

To begin, begin.

Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I,...

Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I,...

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double. . .

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double. . .

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and...

With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife; they see A happy youth, and...

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my...

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my...