John Donne Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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.

  John Donne

  Lying, Valentine, Fall

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA

• He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

  John Donne

  Book, Desire, Should

  John Donne “The Sermons of John Donne”, Univ of California Press

• And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

  John Donne

  Mean, Perfect, Desire

  1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

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