Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNELicence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
More John Donne Quotes
-
-
As soon as there was two there was pride.
JOHN DONNE -
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
JOHN DONNE -
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
JOHN DONNE -
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNE -
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
JOHN DONNE -
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
JOHN DONNE -
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
JOHN DONNE -
Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
JOHN DONNE -
God is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
JOHN DONNE -
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.
JOHN DONNE -
Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNE -
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE -
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE -
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNE -
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE






