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William Wordsworth: The waves beside...

William Wordsworth: The waves beside...

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In...

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William Wordsworth: With gentle hand<br>Touch...

William Wordsworth: With gentle hand
Touch...

With gentle hand
Touch - for there is a spirit in the woods.


Source:...

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William Wordsworth: We must be...

William Wordsworth: We must be...

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton...

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William Wordsworth: Thou hast great...

William Wordsworth: Thou hast great...

Thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable...

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William Wordsworth: Those obstinate questionings<br>Of...

William Wordsworth: Those obstinate questionings
Of...

Those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a...

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William Wordsworth: Bliss was it...

William Wordsworth: Bliss was it...

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!


Source:...

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William Wordsworth: Behold her, single...

William Wordsworth: Behold her, single...

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland lass!


Source: The...

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William Wordsworth: Not in Utopia,...

William Wordsworth: Not in Utopia,...

Not in Utopia, - subterranean fields, -
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
But in the very world,...

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William Shakespeare: Remuneration! O! that's...

William Shakespeare: Remuneration! O! that's...

Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings.

Source: Love's Labour's...

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Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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Oscar Wilde: Civilization requires slaves....

Oscar Wilde: Civilization requires slaves....

Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is laisser-faire...

George Bernard Shaw: What is laisser-faire...

What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids...

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James Matthew Barrie: Some of my...

James Matthew Barrie: Some of my...

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

Source:
-- James Matthew Barrie,...

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write.

Source: The New York...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Gorgonised me from...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Gorgonised me from...

Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.


Source: Maud, pt....

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He clasps the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He clasps the...

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am shamed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am shamed...

I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere...

Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man for the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man for the...

Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and...

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