John Donne Quotes

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde;

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

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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

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

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights Till Age snow white hairs on thee; Thou, when thou return'st wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair.

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