John Donne Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

  John Donne

  Death, Art, Thinking

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 6 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

• Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

  John Donne

  Art, Men, Passionate

• Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

  John Donne

  Time, Art, Philosophy

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.7, Paulist Press

• 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.

  John Donne

  Love, Sweet, Art

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics

• For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

  John Donne

  Love, Art, Darkness

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

• Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.

  John Donne

  Art, Hate, Women

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.92, Oxford University Press, USA

• Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

  John Donne

  Art, Women, Searchers

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.91, Delphi Classics

• A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

  John Donne

  Art, Unique, Mathematics

  "The science of poetry, the poetry of science" by Ruth Padel, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

• Let me arrest thy thoughts, wonder with me,
  Why ploughing, building, ruling and the rest,
  Or most of those arts, whence our lives are blessed,
  By cursed Cain's race invented be,
  And blessed Seth vexed us with astronomy.

  John Donne

  Art, Science, Race

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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