John Donne Quotes

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where ca...

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

How blest am I in this discovering thee!To enter in these bonds is to be free;Then where my hand is ...

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto...

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and...

A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls fr...

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal

Yet nothing can to nothing fall,Nor any place be empty quite;Therefore I think my breast hath allTho...

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare...

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansio...

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

Dear love, for nothing less than theeWould I have broke this happy dream;It was a themeFor reason, m...

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine i...

I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

Go and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who c...

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy ...

All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which mak...

Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; Me it sucked first, ...

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you num...

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.

If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.

If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends...

I joy, that in these straits I see my west;

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.

In Heaven, it is always Autumn".

Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,All just supply, and all relation;Prince, subject, father, son...

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know fo...

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know fo...

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this that the beast does ...

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of fo...

We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is ...

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of t...

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me,And S...

He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him;...

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know fo...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If...

No man is an island, entire of itself.

Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us awa...

Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;She gives the best light to his sphere;Or each is both, and...