To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. – John Donne
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. – John Donne
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne
Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson