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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. — John Clare

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

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

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

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark. — Tim Fulford

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

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down — John Clare

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude
And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. — John Clare

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees. — Alex Clare

I am the self-consumer of my woes, — John Clare

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

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I. — John Clare

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled. — John Clare

A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble
Is well-compare-d to a bubble
on a navigable river
Soon 'tis touched t'is gone forever — John Clare

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

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee. — John Clare

My illness was love, though I knew not the smart,
But the beauty of love was the blood of my heart. — John Clare

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

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away — John Clare

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

I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,
And press the common air. — John Clare

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

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

How frail the bloom, how short the stay
That terminates us all!
Today we flourish green and gay,
Like leaves tomorrow fall. — John Clare

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

Language has not the power to speak what love indites
The soul lies buried in the Ink that writes — John Clare

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

Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. — John Clare

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

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

I loved thee, though I told thee not,
Right earlily and long, thou wert joy of my ever spot
theme of my every song. — John Clare

Wildness is my suiting scene. — John Clare