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“What is a Poet?…He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Life , Men , Soul , Nature

“And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring.

Faith , Flowers

“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”

William Wordsworth

Part III, No. 5 – Walton's Book of Lives.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

Memory

“And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 3.
She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 1.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

God , Daughters

“That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 4.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)

Solitude

“Oh, be wise, Thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.”

William Wordsworth

Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Lines (1795)

Love , Knowledge

“"What is good for a bootless bene?"
With these dark words begins my tale;
And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring
When prayer is of no avail?”

William Wordsworth

Force of Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Spring

“In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs—in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Law , Knowledge , Passion , Time

“A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.”

William Wordsworth

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. ? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Star

“Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 18.
Laodamia (1814)

Beauty

“For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
To me was all in all.—I cannot paint
What then I was.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)

Pleasure , Nature , Animals , Painting

“Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.”

William Wordsworth

Personal Talk, Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“No bird, but an invisible thing,
A voice, a mystery.”

William Wordsworth

To the Cuckoo, st. 4 (1804).

Bird

“The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.”

William Wordsworth

Personal Talk, Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Knowledge , Science

“Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.”

William Wordsworth

A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Music

“Thou has left behind
Powers that will work for thee,—air, earth, and skies!
There 's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.”

William Wordsworth

To Toussaint L'Ouverture, l. 12 (1807).

Love , Forgetting

“Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 6 (1798).

“Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”

William Wordsworth

Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Help , Cry