Quotes from John Donne

For this, Love is enraged with me; Yet kills not. If I must example be To future rebels, if the unborn Must learn by my being cut up and torn, Kill and dissect me, Love; for this Torture against thine own end is: Racked carcasses make ill anatomies

Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.

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; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;

Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.