“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”

“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

“Here must thou be, O man,Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here —Here keepest thou thy individual state:No other can divide with thee this work,No secondary hand can interveneTo fashion this ability. 'Tis thine,The prime and vital principle is thineIn the recesses of thy nature, farFrom any reach of outward fellowship,Else 'tis not thine at all.”

“Feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong.”

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

“He is by nature ledTo peace so perfect that the young beholdWith envy, what the old man hardly feels.”

“A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?”