John Donne
John Donne
John Donnewas an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations...
motivational jail palaces
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
death grief bereavement
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
art men passionate
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
death peace grief
Any 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.
littles world made
I am a little world made cunningly.
love two fool
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
god faith christianity
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
inspirational friendship death
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
spring shadow bud
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
library ascension
Death is an ascension to a better library.
love book soul
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
love romantic kissing
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
giving
we give each other a smile with a future in it
death book men
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.