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John Donne

English poet and cleric

1572–1631

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Elegies, No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
- Beauty
- Love
Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
- Love
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
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

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