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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
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.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.