Quotes by : John Clare

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

I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with....

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

I wish I was what I have beenAnd what I was could beAs when I roved in shadows greenAnd loved my willow....

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits,....

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

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

O take me from the busy crowd,I cannot bear the noise!For Nature's voice is never loud;I seek for quiet....

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither....

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer....