“Work it into your thoughts, into your imagination, make it a real…” — William Wordsworth

“Work it into your thoughts, into your imagination, make it a real presence in the mind.”

Advising that religious belief should become inwardly vivid rather than merely verbal · Conversation, recorded in personal reminiscences

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William Wordsworth

About William Wordsworth

7 April 1770–23 April 1850

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwestern corner of England, and died on 23 April 1850 at Rydal Mount in the Lake District. Few poets have altered English literary culture so thoroughly. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth helped establish the principles of…

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