We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
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.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.
Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.
I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.
The simple Wordsworth. . . Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
