Quote#Love
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows
Quote byJohn Clare · 1793–1864
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript, I am.
English (original)
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
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