Poetry Quote by John Clare — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I found the poems in the fields,”

“Language has not the power to speak what love indites”

“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”

“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;”

“I hid my love when young till I”

“I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,”

“I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it's a myth /”

“I many times thought peace had come,”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“A wind starts to blow, without feelings,”

“And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace”

“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,”