Death is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNEDeath is an ascension to a better library.
JOHN DONNESo in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
JOHN DONNELove, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNEFull nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNEFor God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNELove 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!
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEOne short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
JOHN DONNETrue joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
JOHN DONNEHow much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNENo man is an island unto himself.
JOHN DONNESleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
JOHN DONNEAll occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
JOHN DONNEArt is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
JOHN DONNEBatter 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.
JOHN DONNE