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Top 25 John Clare Quotes (2024 Update)

John Clare Quote: “I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death’s oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.”

1. “I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death’s oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.”

John Clare Quote: “If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”

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

John Clare Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.”

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

John Clare Quote: “How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree.”

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

John Clare Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “I just had a bruh moment.”

8. “I just had a bruh moment.”

John Clare Quote: “Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.”

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

John Clare Quote: “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!”

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down.”

12. “I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down.”

John Clare Quote: “And what is Life? – An hour-glass on the run.”

13. “And what is Life? – An hour-glass on the run.”

John Clare Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “Wildness is my suiting scene.”

15. “Wildness is my suiting scene.”

John Clare Quote: “Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away...”

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

John Clare Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “Remember us better than we are.”

18. “Remember us better than we are.”

John Clare Quote: “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.”

19. “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 Quote: “He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.”

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

John Clare Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.”

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

John Clare Quote: “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.”

23. “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 Quote: “Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.”

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

John Clare Quote: “I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.”

25. “I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.”

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

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

John Clare Quote: “I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.”

27. “I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.”

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

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

John Clare Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

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