John Donne

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John Donne (pronounced like done, ; 1572 – March 31 , 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnet, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigram, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, compared with that of his contemporaries. He is famous for his Holy Sonnets. Donne came from... full article at wikipedia

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Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him...	Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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