John Donne Poetry Quotes

#1. Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

John Donne

#2. And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

John Donne

#3. Live like a Queen from teen to lean.

Rashmi

#4. Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Dejan Stojanovic

#5. It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

Peter Weir

#6. I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don't care a bit what you're saying.

Christopher Isherwood

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

John Donne

#8. We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Joseph Addison

#9. As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.

Tony Evans

#10. Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.

John Donne

#11. I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

John Donne

#12. Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

Queen Latifah

#13. There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down those just beneath them." 121

When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

Michael Leahy

#14. Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

#15. How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be

John Donne

#16. I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

Mike McCready

#17. There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war of necessity and we have to fight it if we want to assure our way of life even if it's the wrong one.

Boris Zubry

#18. 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.

John Donne

#19. If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

John Donne