What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

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.