Poetry Quote by John Donne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Only our love hath no decay;”

“Licence my roving hands, and let them go”

“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.”

“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.”

“The day breaks not: it is my heart.”

“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“I went down not long ago”

“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.”

“Once in a golden hour”

“we must bring”

“i laced my shoes with sorrow”