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

“Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“At the round earth's imagined corners blow”

“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.”

“This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts”

“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”

“True and false fears let us refrain,”

“The weak breeze whispers nothing”

“Little Cinder”

“So the nymphs they spoke,”

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility.”

“life's not a paragraph”

“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”