All WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Quotes about “Books”

“Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?”
“May books and nature be their early joy!”
“Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.”
“Books are the best type of the influence of the past.”
“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.”
“Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.”
“These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.”
“Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.”
“Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.”
“Dreams, books, are each a world.”

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