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- “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
- “Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.” ― John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs.
- “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. " [The Autumnal]” ― John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose.
- “I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.” ― John Donne, The Complete English Poems.
Below, we select and introduce some of the best, and best-known, quotations from John Donne’s work. Many of these quotations are from his poetic oeuvre, though we’ll begin with a couple of quotations not from Donne’s poetry but from his prose writings, which are also highly lyrical and contain a similar concentration of thought and feeling.
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- “I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.” ― John Donne, The Complete English Poems.
- “Licence my roving hands, and let them go. Before, behind, between, above, below.” ― John Donne, The Complete English Poems.
- “Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” ― John Donne, The Complete English Poems.
- “The Good-Morrow. I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I. Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
Feb 23, 2016 · Here we’ve condensed the complete poetical works of John Donne into ten of his best-known and most celebrated poems. What is your favourite John Donne poem? And can you choose one classic Donne poem?
Summary. Scholars have disagreed over Donne's political attitudes for some years now, some representing him as a committed (or just a cynical) monarchist, others as an early modern liberal, subtly critical of the claims to ''absolute'' power made by the Stuart kings.
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Nov 4, 2007 · John Donne subverted authority by marrying in defiance of social and legal authority, yet desperately sought the approval and favor of those in authority. In brief summations of history, we tend toward clear-cut terms and single emphasis: these two groups fought and the winners lived happily ever after (for a little while until a new group ...
