John Donne Quotes

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.