Donne Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems — Carol Ann Duffy
• Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word… — John Donne
• Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill… — Nicolas Sarkozy
• I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
• I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll… — John Mahoney
• The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and… — David Nicholls
• And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore. — Donna Tartt
• No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. — Timothy Noah
• Listen John Donne ; a flea doesn't deserve a single line of poetry. — Mohammad MUSTAFA

Who Wrote These Donne Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Donne Quotes as follows:

• 1 Donne Quote by Carol Ann Duffy
• 1 Donne Quote by John Donne
• 1 Donne Quote by Nicolas Sarkozy
• 1 Donne Quote by Sidney Lanier
• 1 Donne Quote by John Mahoney
• 1 Donne Quote by David Nicholls
• 1 Donne Quote by Donna Tartt
• 1 Donne Quote by Timothy Noah
• 1 Donne Quote by Mohammad MUSTAFA