Quotes by William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798 and became Poet Laureate in 1843. Much of his work was written in the Lake District, where he lived with his sister Dorothy. His long autobiographical poem The Prelude was published after his death in 1850.
I wandered lonely as a Cloud / That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dancing Daffodills;
My heart leaps up when I behold / A Rainbow in the sky:
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity:
The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: