Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNEGod is so omnipresent. God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
More John Donne Quotes
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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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How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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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.
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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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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To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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