“Then as the earth’s inner, narrow crooked lanes Do purge salt waters’ fretful tears away —John Donne” — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
“What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.” — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“Comparisons are odious Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect...” — Talon Rihai Copy Share Image
“Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard.… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
“Having heard so often, and so believably, John Donne’s bell tolling softly that “Thou must die,” one turns more sharply to life,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“ No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
“People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people’s solitude, not intruding on their shores,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. ... Like John Donne, man lies in a close… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Song Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; Me it sucked first, and now… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“A toy boat, a toy boat, a toy boat,’ she repeated, thus enforcing upon herself the fact that it is not articles… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Please write and tell me about London, I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Listen John Donne ; a flea doesn't deserve a single line of poetry. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“A bride, before a ‘Good-night’ could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“There was a rich old guy named John Donnelly who must have donated a bunch of money. He had forgotten his member… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Now, as in Tullia’s tomb one lamp burnt clear Unchanged for fifteen hundred year, May these… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Mark but this Flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It suck’d me first, and now… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
