John Clare Quotes
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.
Clare, John. "I Am!" The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell, Clarendon Press, 1984.
On the subject of international law in the pre-World War II period, one of the Senate's most outspoken isolationists said:. Tophet is a valley near Jerusalem, associated with death. See II Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 7:31-33. Tophet was also known as Valley of Hinnom (Gehinnom in Hebrew, eventually becoming English Gehenna, "Hell." For a contrasting view of international law, see below, Johnson.
John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption. His poetry underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century: he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."
