Quote

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

William Wordsworth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
Lyricist
Poet
Cockermouth
Cumbria
Wordsworth
Daffodil
Pleasures
Worth
Thousand
Pleasure
Nature

More quotes by William Wordsworth

Image
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
William Wordsworth
Image
Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
William Wordsworth
Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
William Wordsworth
Image
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
William Wordsworth
Image
Books are the best type of the influence of the past.
William Wordsworth
Image
Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
William Wordsworth
Image
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
William Wordsworth
Image
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
Image
May books and nature be their early joy!
William Wordsworth
Image
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
William Wordsworth
Image
The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.
William Wordsworth
Image
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.
William Wordsworth
Image
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
William Wordsworth
Image
The moving accident is not my trade To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
William Wordsworth
Image
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
William Wordsworth
Image
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
William Wordsworth
Image
Me this uncharted freedom tires I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
William Wordsworth
Image
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth
Image
A deep distress has humanised my soul.
William Wordsworth
Image
The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
William Wordsworth