Author: John Donne

Quotes

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

- John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- John Donne

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

- John Donne

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

- John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

- John Donne

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

- John Donne

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

- John Donne

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.

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.

- John Donne

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

- John Donne

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