Donne Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
— Carol Ann Duffy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
— Timothy Noah
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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: