We give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNEWe give each other a smile with a future in it.
JOHN DONNETo know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
JOHN DONNEAny man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
JOHN DONNEPoetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
JOHN DONNECome 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 DONNEHow much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
JOHN DONNEI sing the progress of a deathless soul.
JOHN DONNEWhat if this present were the world’s last night?
JOHN DONNEIf I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNEI count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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 DONNEOnly 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.
JOHN DONNEI shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
JOHN DONNEWho are a little wise the best fools be.
JOHN DONNEFor God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNEWhen one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE