Quotes by John Donne

John Donne

John Donne

English poet

Lived from: 1572 - 1631

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 22 january 1572 Died: 31 march 1631

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  • Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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  • Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
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  • Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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  • Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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  • More than kisses letters mingle souls.
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  • More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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  • No man is an Island, entire of itself.
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  • Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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  • Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
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  • Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
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  • Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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  • To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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  • We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
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  • When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.
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  • When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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  • Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
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