Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNE
What if this present were the world’s last night?
More John Donne Quotes
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Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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True 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.
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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Friends are ourselves.
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Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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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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Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
JOHN DONNE