Quotes about wordsworth
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. Aravind Adiga
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Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse. Lord Byron
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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. Andrew Motion
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If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
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Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. Pico Iyer
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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
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All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions Mahatma Gandhi
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Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between. A. E. Housman
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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
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Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. Philip Larkin
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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
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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. Walter Pater