The quotations of

John Donne

English poet and cleric

1572–1631

25 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Beauty. Part of the Poets collection.

If in his study he hath so much care
To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.
Epigrams, “Antiquary”, in Poems (1633)
- Clever Jabs
- Marriage
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Death, Be Not Proud (1633)In context
- Life & Death
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633)In context
- Love
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (1633)In context
- Love
Mark but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is;
The Flea (1633)In context
- Love
- Sex
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved?
The Good-Morrow (1633)In context
- Love
Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you
As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend
Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (1633)In context
- God
- Prayer
Death, thou shalt die.
Death, Be Not Proud (1633)In context
- Life & Death
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
The Good-Morrow (1633)In context
- Beauty
- Love
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated
No Man Is an Island (1624)In context
- Life & Death

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