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~ John Donne Quotes ~
« on: December 28, 2014, 01:55:50 PM »
John Donne Quotes


An English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a prominent representative of the metaphysical poets of the period.
John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a prominent representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to that of his contemporaries.

Here are some famous quotes by John Donne. 




More than kisses letters mingle souls.
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« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2014, 01:57:35 PM »
Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
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« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2014, 01:58:02 PM »
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2014, 01:58:31 PM »
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
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« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2014, 01:58:57 PM »
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right.
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« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2014, 01:59:23 PM »
Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
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« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2014, 01:59:51 PM »
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2014, 02:00:20 PM »
The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.
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« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2014, 02:00:48 PM »
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2014, 02:01:15 PM »
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
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« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2014, 02:01:54 PM »
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
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« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2014, 02:02:21 PM »
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2014, 02:02:50 PM »
No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
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« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2014, 02:03:17 PM »
Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.
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« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2014, 02:03:42 PM »
Love is agrowing to full constant light; and his first minute after noon is night.
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