God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw. John Donne More Quotes by John Donne More Quotes From John Donne On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will John Donne steep hills truth From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. John Donne soul sleep men I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love. John Donne hate love men I am a little world made cunningly. John Donne made littles world Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory. John Donne calling sleep may Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne kill-me dies thee The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me. John Donne anger christian sun Then love is sin, and let me sinful be. John Donne let-me sin love-is Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends. John Donne princess stars fall To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. John Donne rejection body Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne serenity joy heaven Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne pleasure ifs How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be. John Donne great-love love-is long Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine. John Donne eye faces friendship For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne tongue sake love Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne masterpiece great-things elephants I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne prayer christian god Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I began. John Donne home running moving I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. John Donne ghost love long Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul! John Donne perplexed poor soul
