Logo
Quote by John Donne
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining p

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

Other quotes by John Donne
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

Category:
Poetry

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Poetry

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. – John Andrew Holmes

Category:
Poetry

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Im happiest with my family around me. – Amy Winehouse

Category:
Family

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Category:
Unrequited Love

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the peoples urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. – Gerald R. Ford

Category:
Unity

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body. – Warren Buffett

Category:
Society