Tao Te Ching
John Donne
1572 – 1631 CE
Leading and inventive metaphysical poet, cleric, politician, womanizer, and one of the greatest love poets; John Donne brought a distinctive style filled with paradoxes and ironies to poems ranging in topic from deeply religious to vibrantly erotic. Fired and imprisoned because of a secret marriage, he lived in poverty for many years while devoting his attention to the idea of “true religion” beyond the superficiality of undigested concepts and superstitious belief. A strong influence on W. B. Yeats, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Coleridge, W. H. Auden, Van Morrison, Robert Oppenheimer; his impact continues today with examples like the movie The Incredibles, that took its Nomanisan Island from his famous saying, "No man is an island.”
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Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644 CE)Sources
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Sermons, 1626
Quotes by John Donne (12 quotes)
“Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
12. This Over That
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“But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length.”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
18. The Sick Society
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“O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall!”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
21. Following Empty Heart
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“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
24. Unnecessary Baggage
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“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
Chapters:
38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so… And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
Chapters:
39. Oneness
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“He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
48. Unlearning
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“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
54. Planting Well
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
from Songs and Sonnets
Chapters:
67. Three Treasures
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“… any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Chapters:
46. Enough
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“I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.”
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“I neglect God and his angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.”
from Sermons, 1626
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