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Quotation from Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
“And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean, and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.”
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 4 (Lyrical Ballads, 1798 text)
The poem's central statement of the presence he senses in nature and in the human mind.
Citation: "And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean, and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things." — William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 4 (Lyrical Ballads, 1798 text). (id tintern-abbey-q6)
Portrait: Tintern-abbey-by-william-havell, William Havell, Public domain.
