John Donne Quotes

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke.

Thy firmness makes my circle just,
and makes me end where I begun.

She is all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is.

She, and comparisons are odious.

Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

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

Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign
Love was as subtly catched, as a disease;
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to defend is harder than to get:
And ought not be profaned on either part,
For though 'tis got by chance,'tis kept by art

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,
All just supply, and all relation;
Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,
For every man alone thinks he hath got
To be a phoenix, and that then can be
None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.

He drinks misery, and he tastes happiness; he mows misery, and he gleaned happiness; he journeys in misery, he does but walked in happiness.

True and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.