that connects
Inspired
I couldn't borrow his name
without acknowledging his
brilliance! This page is dedicated
to William Wordsworth, whose
eloquence, wisdom and wit has
me quite besotted.
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
If poetry isn’t your thing, you may want to skip this page, but if it is, it may make your heart skip a beat.
English poet William Wordsworth lived from1770 to 1850. His perception of humanity, together with his love of nature and of solitude is inspiration to my own attempts at working with words.
A true artist, he splashes words onto the page like colour – vivid, unexpected, and breathtakingly beautiful.
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth
Each of the following individual extracts, are the breathings of William Wordsworth:
“The best portion of a good man's life:
his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
“The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.”
“There is a comfort in the strength of love;
'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.”
“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is
Solitude”
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
“What we have loved
Others will love
And we will teach them how.”
“From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.”
“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”
Left wanting more of William’s wisdom?
Check out - www.poets.org
