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John Donne, né le 22 janvier 1572 à Londres et mort dans la même ville le 31 mars 1631, est un poète et prédicateur anglais du règne de Jacques Ier, considéré comme le chef de file de la poésie métaphysique. Son œuvre, d'une grande variété, comprend des poèmes d'amour, des sonnets religieux, des traductions du latin, des épigrammes, des élégies, des chansons et des sermons. Wikipedia  

✵ 1572 – 31. mars 1631
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John Donne: Citations en anglais

“Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!”

John Donne

No. 48, preached upon the Day of St. Paul's Conversion, January 25, 1629
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.”

John Donne

No. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=eypXAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22When+God&#x27;s+hand+is+bent+to+strike+it+is+a+fearful+thing+to+fall+into+the+hands+of+the+living+God+but+to+fall+out+of+the+hands+of+the+living+God+is+a+horror+beyond+our+expression+beyond+our+imagination%22&amp;pg=PA386#v=onepage, preached at Sion to The Earl of Carlisle and company (c. 1622) <br class="br">LXXX Sermons (1640)

“I observe the physician, with the same diligence, as he the disease; I see he fears, and I fear with him…”

John Donne

VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”

John Donne

No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be,
To taste whole joys.”

John Donne livre Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed

No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 33
Elegies

“Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.”

John Donne

Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”

John Donne

The Triple Fool, stanza 2

“O my America! my new-found land.”

John Donne livre Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed

No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 27
Elegies

“Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man; this minute I was well, and am ill, this minute.”

John Donne

I. Insultus Morbi Primus; The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.”

John Donne

The Relic, stanza 1

“Man, who is the noblest part of the earth, melts so away as if he were a statue, not of earth, but of snow.”

John Donne

II. Actio Læsa; The strength, and the functions of the senses, and other faculties change and fail.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

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