All John Donne Quotes
- I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. Best
- And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night. Choose
- 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
- To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. All
- Death is an ascension to a better library. Ascension
- Death, thou shalt die. Death
- My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres,… Alike
- Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. Body
- Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me,… Batter
- Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. Behind
- All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated… All
- we give each other a smile with a future in it Each
- Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill. Any
- Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity Divinity
- True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To… Add
- 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… Anniversary
- Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none. Filled
- That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so. Consider
- I am a little world made cunningly. Cunningly
- ...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can… Alike
- Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their… Affection
- A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.… Anywhere
- Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and… All
- If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. Any
- I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire… Air