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John Clare

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


— John Clare


#inspiration #nature #inspirational

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


#liars #lies #rumors #rumours #truth

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


— John Clare


#edition #had #how #i #life

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


#choice #face #feel #i #i feel

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


#avoid #bad #best #best way #difficulty

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


#anything #been #companions #drinking #easy

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


— John Clare


#die #green #loved #time #too






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The Cottage has been restored using traditional building methods and opened to the public. John Clare: A Reference Guide. Today children at the John Clare School Helpston's primary parade through the village and place their 'midsummer cushions' around Clare's gravestone (which has the inscriptions "To the Memory of John Clare The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" and "A Poet is Born not Made") on his birthday in honour of their most famous resident.

His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption.

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