The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.

- Dorothy Wordsworth

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited…

- Dorothy Wordsworth

The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save t…

- Dorothy Wordsworth

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

- Dorothy Wordsworth

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and…

- Dorothy Wordsworth

The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observe…

- Dorothy Wordsworth

I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.

- Dorothy Wordsworth

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

- Dorothy Wordsworth

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

- Dorothy Wordsworth