Rachel hiccupped. "What are you, Wordsworth, now?" "Do you like Wordsworth?" Rees asked. "Not especially." "Then, no, I'm not.
Surprised by joy- impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport-- Oh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind-- But how could I forget thee? Th...
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 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.
Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely inf...
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
To dwell is to garden.
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
Själva längtan är beviset på att det vi längtar efter finns.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Gardening is not a rational act.
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
