425 Quotes by John Donne

Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

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

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.