John Donne
John Donne
John Donnewas an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations...
inspiration charity social
This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
honesty truth alcohol
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
men pieces world
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
miracle world needs
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.
appetite
I find no abhorring in my appetite.
success media achievement
To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.
war hieroglyphics misery
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
men guilt shame
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
men sight young
Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.
heaven soul body
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
imperfect
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
today sun
Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.
mean perfect desire
And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
philosophy men differences
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.