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This collection holds 21 wordsworth quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Alice Eve, Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion.

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My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

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

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

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

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

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.

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.

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.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

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.'

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

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