Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
William WordsworthScience appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
William WordsworthTwo voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
William WordsworthWe Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
William Wordsworth