Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each is both, and all, and so
They unto one another nothing owe;
And yet they do, but are
So just and rich in that coin which they pay,
That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay;
Neither desires to be spared nor to spare.
They quickly pay their debt, and then
Take no acquittances, but pay again;
They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall
No such occasion to be liberal.
More truth, more courage in these two do shine,
Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.


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If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
JOHN DONNE
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE
Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crysta...
JOHN DONNE
Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
JOHN DONNE
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
JOHN DONNE
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy...
JOHN DONNE
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
JOHN DONNE
The day breaks not, it is my heart.
JOHN DONNE
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
JOHN DONNE
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
JOHN DONNE
For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE
like gold to airy thinness beat
JOHN DONNE
Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For ...
JOHN DONNE
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
JOHN DONNE
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn th...
JOHN DONNE
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
JOHN DONNE
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know fo...
JOHN DONNE
When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / A...
JOHN DONNE
On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quic...
JOHN DONNE
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
JOHN DONNE
She, and comparisons are odious.
JOHN DONNE
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
JOHN DONNE
So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which cro...
JOHN DONNE
By our first strange and fatal interview.
JOHN DONNE
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none...
JOHN DONNE
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
JOHN DONNE
When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
JOHN DONNE
...but come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length JOHN DONNE
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
JOHN DONNE
For, thus friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
JOHN DONNE
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...
DR. JOHN DONNE
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
DR. JOHN DONNE
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,...
DR. JOHN DONNE
He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it,...
DR. JOHN DONNE
We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE
When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a...
ELENA DELLE DONNE
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER