JOHN DONNE QUOTES
ABOVE: JOHN DONN QUOTES : A PORTRAIT OF JOHN DONNE. JOHN DONNE QUOTES: Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
The day breaks not, it is my heart. BREAK OF DAYDeath be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and Dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. HOLY SONNETS,X
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. TO THE COUNTESS OF BEDBORD
Love, all alike,no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. THE SUN RISING,
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. MEDITATION XII
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. THE CANONIZATION
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. A VALEDICTION : FORBIDDING MOURNING
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run. THE SUN RISING JOHN DONNE QUOTES Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. THE ANAGRAM
For Whom This Bell Tolls....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. MEDITATION VI
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. THE TRIPLE FOOL
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ELEGY IX : THE AUTUMNAL
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. ELEGY XVIII
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair. SONG: GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR
All other things, to their destruction draw,Only our love hath no decay;This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,Running it never runs from us away,But truly keep his first, last, everlasting day. THE ANNIVERSARY
At the round earth's imagined corners, blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered bodies go. HOLY SONNETS, VII
Come live with me, and be my love,And we will some new pleasures prove,Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,With silken lines, and silver hooks. THE BAIT JOHN DONNE QUOTES.
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