Donne

Famous quotes containing the word donne:

    This flea is you and I, and this
    Our mariage bed, and mariage temple is;
    Though parents grudge, and you, w’are met,
    And cloystered in these living walls of Jet.
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    Not thou nor thy religion dost controule,
    The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule,
    But thou would’st have that love thy selfe: As thou
    Art jealous, Lord, so I am jealous now,
    Thou lov’st not, till from loving more, thou free
    My soule: Who ever gives, takes libertie:
    O, if thou car’st not whom I love
    Alas, thou lov’st not mee.
    —John Donne (1572–1631)