Famous Quotes by John Donne
- So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the... More
- Not thou nor thy religion dost controule,
The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule,
But... More
- Sweare by thy selfe, that at my death thy Sonne
Shall shine as he shines now, and... More
- Love must not be, but take a body too,
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love... More
- Love is a growing, or full constant light;
And his first minute, after noone, is night. More
- And new Philosophy calls all in doubt,
The element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun is... More
- Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. More
- Study me then, you who shall lovers be
At the next world, that is, at the next... More
- At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise,... More
- Dull sublunary lovers’ love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth... More
- If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed... More
- On a round ball
A workman that hath copies by, can lay
An Europe, Afric, and an... More
- Batter my heart, three-personed God; More
- Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except... More
- Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation... More
- Whensoever any affliction assails me, me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand,... More
- Whensoever any affliction assails me, mee thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand,... More
- Stay, O sweet, and do not rise;
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day... More
- The reasons why I did not foreacquaint you with it (to deal with the same plainness that I have... More
- At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull... More
- To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. More
- I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely... More
- One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die! More
- God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by... More
- When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. More
- No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the... More
- But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. More
- Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification. More
- I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and... More
- We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when... More
- He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be... More
- Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet... More
- Who sees God’s face, that is self life, must die;
What a death were it then to see God... More
- Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever... More
- We thinke that Paradise and Calvarie,
Christs Crosse, and Adams tree, stood in one... More
- I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite;
But black sin hath... More
- O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And... More
- Loves riddles are, that though thy heart depart,
It stayes at home, and thou with losing... More
- That loving wretch that swears
‘Tis not the bodies marry, but the minds,
Which he in... More
- Rebel and atheist too, why murmur I,
As though I felt the worst that love could do?
Love... More
- I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost
Who died before the god of love was born.
I... More
- And yet no greater, but more eminent,
Love by the spring is grown;
As, in the... More
- The straight Hellespont between
The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts. More
- Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. More
- Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
A constant... More
- O my black soul! Now thou art summoned
By sickness, death’s herald, and champion;
Thou... More
- I conjure thee, and all the oaths which I
And thou have sworn to seal joint... More
- By our first strange and fatal interview, More
- So doth, so is Religion; and this blind-
ness too much light breeds; but unmoved thou
Of... More
- On a huge hill,
Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and he that will
Reach her, about must,... More
- Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he... More
- Betray, kind husband, Thy spouse to our sights,
And let mine amorous soul court Thy mild... More
- Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
To Nature, and to hers, and my good is... More
- Go, and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me, where all past... More
- God clothed himself in vile man’s flesh, that so
He might be weak enough to suffer woe. More
- Sweetest love, I do not go
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A... More
- Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
If one might, death were no divorce. More
- Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To... More
- All other things to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow... More
- When by thy scorn, O murderess, I am dead,
And that thou think’st thee free
From all... More
- No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Young... More
- Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands,... More
- For thee, thou need’st no such deceit,
For, thou thyself art thine own bait;
That fish,... More
- Various content
To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part.
If then your body go,... More
- Well, then, stay here; but know,
When thou hast stayed and done thy most,
A naked... More
- Call us what you will, we are made such by love;
Call her one, me another fly,
We’re... More
- My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.
Thou art so true that thoughts of thee... More
- But oh alas, so long, so far
Our bodies why do we forbear?
They are ours, though they are... More
- And whilst our souls negotiate there,
We like sepulchral statues lay;
All day, the same... More
- Love’s mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
And if some lover,... More
- So must pure lovers’ souls descend
T’affections, and to faculties,
Which sense may... More
- Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,
Ease me with death by bidding me got... More
- Love was as subtly catched, as a disease;
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to... More
- This flea is you and I, and this
Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
Though parents... More
- A sinne, nor shame, nor losse of maidenhead, More
- Whate’er she meant by it, bury it with me,
For since I am
Love’s martyr, it might... More
- And now good morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For... More
- I can love both fair and brown;
Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays;
Her... More
- When I died last, and, dear, I die
As often as from thee I go
Though it be but an hour... More
- Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me,
Why plowing, building, ruling and the... More
- Yet, love and hate mee too,
So, these extreames shall neithers office doe;
Love mee, that... More
- A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
Will he not let us alone,
And think that there... More
- Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus
Through windows, and through curtains call... More
- Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of... More
- Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming... More
- I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry. More
- This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
My pilgrimages last mile; and my... More
- Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
Repair me now, for now mine end doth... More
- But our old subtle foe so tempteth me
That not one hour I can myself sustain.
Thy grace... More
- License my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below. More
- Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To... More
- Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must... More
- Then, since that I may know,
As liberally as to a midwife, show
Thyself: cast all, yea,... More
- Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my... More
- Nor can you more judge womans thoughts by tears,
Than by her shadow, what she weares.
O... More
- Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail. More
- Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
For, thus friends absent speak. More
- Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity. More
- No, no; but as in my idolatry
I said to all my profane mistresses,
Beauty, of pity,... More
- What if this present were the world’s last night?
Mark in my heart, O Soul, where thou dost... More
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