John Donne Quotes & Quotations

John Donne Quotes

» As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

» Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

» When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

» At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

» Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

» Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

» More than kisses letters mingle souls.

» Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.

» Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

» Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

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