9 Wordsworth Quotes for You to Enjoy

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth. John Burroughs

Country Kind Would District See Could Lake Wordsworth Produce

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons. Billy Collins

Think Imagination Melodies Cartoons Brothers More Emily Emily Dickinson Loony Were Than Influential Tunes Wordsworth Warner Warner Brothers

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. Philip Larkin

Me Were Wordsworth Deprivation

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

Generation Book Gave Consider Only He Him Read Learned Were Romantics Apart Wordsworth Even Keats Copy University

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. J. M. Coetzee

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. Andrew Motion

Poet Others Admire Above Wordsworth

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.' Geoff Dyer

Me Tears Paradise Lost Rage Garbage Our Ruined Books Tempest More Cottage Obviously Praised Continue End Get Ended Move Wordsworth Then Many Now Near Speech