Wordsworth Quotes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.