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William Wordsworth

(1770 – 1850) A major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads. He was Britain's Poet Laureate.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows.

All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

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

Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way.

Enough, if something from our hands have power to live, and act, and serve the future hour.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.