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

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



John Clare Quotes: "I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down"

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




John Clare Quotes: "Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers."

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



John Clare Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life."

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



John Clare Quotes: "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"

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

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




John Clare Quotes: "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."

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

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



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

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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




John Clare Quotes: "This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb."

This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.



John Clare Quotes: "Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude."

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



John Clare Quotes: "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 haze; The place we occupy seems all the world."

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 haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.



John Clare Quotes: "He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well."

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



John Clare Quotes: "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."

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

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



John Clare Quotes: "Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away."

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



John Clare Quotes: "Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth."

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.



John Clare Quotes: "How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree"

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree



John Clare Quotes: "I am the self-consumer of my woes."

I am the self-consumer of my woes.



John Clare Quotes: "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 songs have charms to sweeten solitude."

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 songs have charms to sweeten solitude.



John Clare Quotes: "Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print"

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print



John Clare Quotes: "When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair"

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair



John Clare Quotes: "I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe."

I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.



John Clare Quotes: "I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly."

I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.



John Clare Quotes: "Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you."

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.



John Clare Quotes: "Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!"

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!



John Clare Quotes: "To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends."

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.



John Clare Quotes: "Wildness is my suiting scene."

Wildness is my suiting scene.



John Clare Quotes: "And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run"

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



John Clare Quotes: "He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well."

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



John Clare Quotes: "I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company."

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.



John Clare Quotes: "Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print"

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print



John Clare Quotes: "O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold."

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold.



John Clare Quotes: "Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude."

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.



John Clare Quotes: "Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes"

Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes



John Clare Quotes: "O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away"

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away



John Clare Quotes: "I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down."

I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.



John Clare Quotes: "In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death."

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.



John Clare Quotes: "There is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the wounded mind endearsAfter the hustling world is broken off"

There is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the wounded mind endearsAfter the hustling world is broken off