Donne Quotes

• Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

  John Donne

  Believe, Doctrine, Bread

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• Lo triste es que amo a Dickens y a Donne y a Keats y a Eliot y a Forster y a Conrad y a Fitzgerald y a Kafka y a Wilde y a Orwell y a Waugh y a Marvell y a Greene y a Sterne y a Shakespeare y a Webster y a Swift y a Yeats y a Joyce y a Hardy, realmente, realmente los amo. Lo que pasa es que ellos no me corresponden.

  David Nicholls

  Facts, Yeats, Wilde

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.233, Villard

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

  Rey Jaime I

  Understanding, Drs, Verses

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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• I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Clever, Offering, Enough

  Wallace Shawn (2010). “The Designated Mourner”, p.22, Theatre Communications Group

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• Un ser humano sin la empatía o los sentimientos adecuados es lo mismo que un androide construido para carecer de ellos, ya sea por diseño o por error. Nos referimos, básicamente, a alguien a quien no le importa el destino del que son víctimas sus semejantes; se mantiene al margen, como un espectador, cumpliendo con su indiferencia el teorema de John Donne de que "Ningún hombre es una isla", pero dándole una vuelta de tuerca a ese teorema: lo que es una isla mental y moral no es un hombre.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mistake, Fall, Mean

  "Las realidades cambiantes de Philip K. Dick". Libro de Lawrence Sutin, 1995.

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• Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
  Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
  And spaced by many years, each line an act
  Through which few labor, which no men retract.
  This passion is the scholar's heritage

  Yvor Winters

  Pasión, Hombres, Años

  Yvor Winters (1963). “Collected Poems”

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• And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

  Ted Hughes

  Police, Knows, Felony

  Ted Hughes (2009). “Birthday Letters”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

  Spir africano

  Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• El cielo me priva de una esposa que nunca me causó otra pena que la de su muerte.

  Luis XIV

  Grief, Wife, Heaven

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 868-871), 1922.

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• All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

  Kenneth Williams

  Men, Islands, Lovely

  "Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

  John Mahoney

  Teacher, Brother, Fun

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• I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

  Sidney Lanier

  Style, Faults, Metaphor

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• Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Wind, Envy

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• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Poetry, His Love, Reading Books

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• And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.

  Donna Tartt

  Farewell, Wave, Shore

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.102, Vintage

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• Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Rose, Poet

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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