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

“Our two souls therefore, which are one,”

“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I”

“Licence my roving hands, and let them go”

“True and false fears let us refrain,”

“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,”

“There is no name for what life should be, except”

“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”

“Still, what I want in my life”

“We are spirits clad in veils.”

“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”