Quote by William Wordsworth
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. - W

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. – William Wordsworth

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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos

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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. – G. K. Chesterton

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