John Clare Quotes

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• I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
• I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.
• How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree
• Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
• Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.
• I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.
• The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
• I am the self-consumer of my woes,
• I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
• I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they…
• My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
• 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…
• 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,…
• So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and…
• 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…
• If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
• Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between,…
• 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…
• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose…
• 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…

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