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The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)

'The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben Jonson. Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love po

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“Prince, Subject, Father, Son, are things forgot, For every man alone thinks he hath got To be a Phoenix, and that then can be None of that kind, of which he is, but he.”

— John Donne, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”

— John Donne, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Eternity, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences