All John Donne Quotes
- I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. Born
- Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. Idiot
- The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and… Both
- Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. Bed
- The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety. Abjure
- And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She. Dare
- Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. Absence
- What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation,… Bed
- If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but… Compass
- Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. Airy
- Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul! Inspirational
- Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign… Arm
- From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee… Best
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth,… Age
- And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's… All
- Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were Counterfeit
- To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. Any
- Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us… Art
- In heaven it is always autumn. Always Autumn
- All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons. All
- But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep. Aside
- Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison? Birth
- Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession. Any
- God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their… Always Autumn
- In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf,… Behalf