Wordsworth Quotes

• Dos voces están allí: una es de las profundidades; Aprende la estruendosa melodía de la nube de tormenta, Ahora ruge, ahora murmura con el mar cambiante, Ahora grita como un pájaro, ahora se cierra suave en el sueño: Y una es la de una vieja oveja medio tonta que balando articula monotonía, e indica que dos y uno son tres, que la hierba es verde, los lagos húmedos, y las montañas escarpadas Y, Wordsworth, ambas son tuyas.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Two, Voice

  William Wordsworth (1954). “The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry”, Harcourt College Pub

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• All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.

  Roger Deakin

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Roger Deakin (2008). “Notes from Walnut Tree Farm”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

  Kathleen Raine

  Writing, Apology, Sky

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

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

  Irving Layton

  Genius, Written

  Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

  Billy Collins

  Brother, Creativity, Thinking

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• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Interview With David Attwell, www.dn.se. August 12, 2008.

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• Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine sense of perception. As we grow older, the world closes in on us, and we gradually lose the freshness of viewpoint that we had as children. That is why I think children should get to know this country while they are young.

  Harper Lee

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.

  Matthew Arnold

  Animal, Hombres, Dar

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Essays in Criticism”, p.76

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• In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry.

  Bertrand Russell

  Daughter, Men, Poetry

  Bertrand Russell (1960). "Ensayos escépticos"

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• There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

  Agnes Repplier

  Appreciate, Literature, Discrimination

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• Wordsworth fue a los Lagos, pero nunca fue un poeta lacustre. Encontró en las piedras los sermones que ya había escondido allí.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lakes, Poetry, Stones

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Homero y Shakespeare y Milton y Marvell y Wordsworth no son más que el crujir de las hojas y el crepitar de las ramas en el bosque, y aún no se oye el sonido de ningún pájaro. La Musa nunca ha alzado su voz para cantar.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voz, pájaro, sonido

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Henry David Thoreau (Ilustradas)", p.233, Delphi Classics.

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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Loneliness

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Campbell, Wordsworth and Southey. Now Ellen don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare, and Byron. Both these were great Men and their works are like themselves, You will know how to chuse the good and avoid the evil, the finest
  passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting you will never wish to read them over twice.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Names, Evil

  "Charlotte Bronte: Selected Letters". Book edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari, September 9, 2010.

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

  Lord Byron

  Simple, Example, Shows

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 241 (of Wordsworth)

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• All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural plan of the body and the system of behaviour of a species are parts of the same whole.... Wordsworth is right: there is only one being in possession of weapons which do not grow on his body and of whose working plan, therefore, the instincts of his species know nothing and in the usage of which he has no correspondingly adequate inhibition.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Behaviour, Body, Adequate

  Konrad Lorenz (1961). “King Solomon's ring: new light on animal ways”, Thomas Y. Crowell

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• I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Inspiration, Way, Kind

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Cuando estaba en el primer año de secundaria, mi colegio introdujo el bádminton, que era claramente una estratagema del departamento de Educación Física para alejarme de la sala de lucha, y funcionó, ya que la primera vez que jugué al bádminton fue como la primera vez que probé el sushi o escuché a los Beatles o leí a Wordsworth. ¿Esto era un deporte? ¿Contaba para los requisitos de gimnasia?

  Rob Sheffield

  Sports, School, Wrestling

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.37, Penguin

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• La gracia particular de Wordsworth, su carisma, como dicen los teólogos, se ha concedido en igual medida a muy pocos hombres desde que el tiempo es mundo: a Plato y ¿a quién más?
  Lo crucial nunca es lo que hacemos, sino siempre lo que hacemos justo después. Lo importante es siempre el paso siguiente.

  Robert Musil

  Plato, Men, What Matters

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• How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

  Adam Hochschild

  Russia, Political, Revolution

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• 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.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Generations, Copies

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• Una escritora trabaja a partir del material que tiene, pero procede del inconsciente. Todo está almacenado y nunca se sabe lo que sale a la superficie en un momento dado. Sin duda es necesario un periodo de gestación, lo que Wordsworth llamaba "la emoción recogida en la tranquilidad". No se puede escribir sobre una experiencia cuando se está viviéndola, sufriéndola. Estás demasiado ocupado sobreviviendo como para mirarla con objetividad. Al menos yo no puedo.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Writing, Gestation Period, Suffering

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• There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

  Robert Hass

  Land, Imagination, People

  "Robert Hass", por Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. Marzo/abril de 1997.

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• With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Children, Flower, Fall

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• The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

  Katy Lederer

  Thinking, Useless, Ghost

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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