“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.”
The Triple Fool, stanza 1
Source: The Complete English Poems
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John Donne 115
English poet 1572–1631Related quotes

“I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.”
"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s
“What kind of fool am I?
I never fell in love.”
Song What kind of fool am I?

“I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.”
recollection http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113&viewtype=text&pageseq=7 by E. Ray Lankester, from his essay "Charles Robert Darwin" in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
1930s
Source: 'I and my purpose', in the journal 'Merz', no. 21, (1931)

“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season

Annotations on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (c. 1958)
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