William Wordsworth Quotes About Power

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  • Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

    "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)
  • Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

    'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 14, l. 190
  • I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907). “Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855”
  • Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

    'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)
  • How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

  • With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

    "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 46 (1798)
  • A power is passing from the earth.

    'Lines on the Expected Dissolution of Mr Fox' (1807)
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