William Wordsworth
British poet and essayist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words follow words, sense seems to follow sense:
What memory and what logic! till the strain
Transcendent, superhuman as it seemed,
Grows tedious even in a young man's ear.
—William Wordsworth, British poet and essayist, Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1805
Posted on February 2, 2004 at 10:50 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquility gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.
—William Wordsworth, British poet and essayist, Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, 1800
Posted on May 29, 2000 at 7:18 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake.
—William Wordsworth, British poet and essayist, It is not to be thought of, 1802
Posted on November 21, 1998 at 10:21 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
—William Wordsworth, British poet and essayist, Home at Grasmere
Posted on November 19, 2001 at 11:09 AM
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