Quotes of: Wordsworth Keyword

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Phyllis Theroux

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore - he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroq...

Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

Complete Verse

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Billy Corgan

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

David Icke

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

Emily Oster

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

Meghan O'Rourke

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Bluebeard's Egg

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

The Prophet

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth

Pork Chops and Applesauce: A Collection of Recipes and Reflections

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

Jamie Oliver

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

Christian Louboutin

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

J. M. Roberts

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Marcelene Cox

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

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.

Walter Pater

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

Letters to His Friends, Vol 2: Books 7-12

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Angela Carter