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This is the way in which he (poet) did his work. He used to go out with a pencil and a tablet and note what struck him...and make a picture out of it....more

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What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, ...more

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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

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My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

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Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

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Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.

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we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

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Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty wor...more

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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will.

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The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before,This is no common waste, no common gloom;But Nature, in due course of time, once moreShall here put on her ...more

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I heard a thousand blended notesWhile in a grove I sate reclined,In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughtsBring sad thoughts to the mind.To her fair w...more

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For I have learnedTo look on nature, not as in the hourOf thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimesThe still, sad music of humanity,Nor harsh nor grat...more