Quote of the Day (John Clare, on ‘The Bitterest Day That Ever Blew’)

“And in the bitterest day that ever blew

The walk will find some places still and warm

Where dead leaves rustle sweet and give alarm

To little birds that flirt and start away.”— John Clare (1793-1864), from “Winter Walk,” from The Four Seasons: Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy (2008)

Quote of the Day (John Clare, on Boys in Winter)

“The schoolboys still their morning rambles take
To neighboring village school with playing speed
Loitering with pastimes leisure till they quake
Oft looking up the wild geese droves to heed
Watching the letters which their journeys make.”—John Clare (1763-1864), “Schoolboys in Winter,” in The Portable Romantic Poets, edited by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950)