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John Donne

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Total quotes: 3

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John Donne

Birthname

Birthday: January 22, 1573

Death: March 31, 1631

Educated At: University Of Cambridge

Nationality: English, Kingdom Of England

Occupations: Poet, Priest, Lawyer, Translator, Songwriter

Total quotes: 3

“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”

— John Donne, The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)

Tagged: Time, Eternity, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?”

— John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne(Modern Library Classics)

Tagged: Love Poem

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”

— John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Tagged: Autumn, october, Fall, Happiness

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