John Clare Quotes

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• If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

  John Clare

  Proof, Ifs

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• Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

  John Clare

  Flower, Love Life, Lust

  John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”

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• I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

  John Clare

  Fields, Found

  John Clare (1908). “Poems by John Clare”

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• Language has not the power to
  speak what love indites:
  The soul lies buried
  in the ink that writes.

  John Clare

  Lying, Writing, Soul

  John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”

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• The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

  John Clare

  Trying, World, Way

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

  John Clare

  Past, Men, Funeral

  'The Past'

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• Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with happiness their guide; And from my brushing feet moths flit away In safer places to pursue their play. In crowds they start. I marvel, well I may, To see such worlds of insects in the way, And more to see each thing, however small, Sharing joy's bounty that belongs to all. And here I gather, by the world forgot, Harvests of comfort from their happy mood, Feeling God's blessing dwells in every spot And nothing lives but owes him gratitude.

  John Clare

  Summer, Gratitude, Blessing

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• For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

  John Clare

  Beautiful, Nature, Eagles

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.982, Delphi Classics

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• And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

  John Clare

  Running, Glasses, Hours

  John Clare (1820). “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery”, p.35

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• I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

  John Clare

  Romantic, Sweet, Flower

  John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press

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• Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

  John Clare

  Air, Gold, Hot

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

  John Clare

  Men, Creator God, Long

  John Clare (2016). “Clare's poems”, p.181, John Clare

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• Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Silence, Rude

  John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.413, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

  John Clare

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press

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• I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

  John Clare

  Squad, Awkward, Use

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• Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

  John Clare

  Poor, Receipts

  John Clare, “Remembrances”

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• I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

  John Clare

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  'I Am' (1848)

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• Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

  John Clare

  Drinking, Enemy, Persuasion

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• Wildness is my suiting scene.

  John Clare

  Nature, Scene, Wildness

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.235, Delphi Classics

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• He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

  John Clare

  Time, Tree, Green

  'The Dying Child'

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• The thorn tree just began to bud
  And greening stained the sheltering hedge,
  An many a violet beside the wood
  Peeped blue between the withered sedge;
  The sun gleamed warm the bank beside,
  'Twas pleasant wandering out a while
  Neath nestling bush to lonely hide,
  Or bend a musings o'er a stile.

  John Clare

  Lonely, Spring, Blue

  John Clare (2012). “Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• And fairy month of waking mirth
  From whom our joys ensue
  Thou early gladder of the earth
  Thrice welcome here anew
  With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
  The grass greens on the lea
  And flowers their tender boon receives
  To bloom and smile with thee.

  John Clare

  Spring, Flower, Joy

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• Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

  John Clare

  Dream, Sea, Joy

  John Clare (1965). “Selected poems”

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• Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

  John Clare

  Tears, Bed, Blooming

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.383, Delphi Classics

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• My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

  John Clare

  Degrees, Chill, Dread

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