Quotes About Donne

what does old Donne say? "God knows in what part of the world every grain of every man's dust lies

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

And I may dine at journey's endWith Landor and with Donne.

those who care about literature and mind must know the Hebrew Bible, Donne, Sterne and Jane Austen, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Proust and Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, and (of course) Shakespeare, to start.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd.

The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary—obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that

With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots,Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots.

Tennyson shall have his day, and Donne his eclipse.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

One does not have to be Christian to see that [John] Donne was right. To be ill is to recognize this interconnectedness -- to understand how much we are "a part of the main." But to be ill in America today is to be brought up against the pathology of a culture that denies this fact. In the worst moments of my illness, I was alone because of the ways that we have allowed ourselves to believe that the self, rather than the community, must do all the healing.

Umoristica (sessista): "Alcuni membri della Commissione avrebbero preferito che le donne non fossero ammesse in Irlanda, ma ci voleva pure qualcuno che stirasse