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John Donne è stato un poeta, religioso e saggista inglese, nonché avvocato e chierico della Chiesa d'Inghilterra.

Scrisse sermoni e poemi di carattere religioso, traduzioni latine, epigrammi, elegie, canzoni, sonetti e satire. Può essere considerato come il rappresentante inglese del concettismo durante il Siglo de Oro.

La sua poetica fu nuova e vibrante per quanto riguarda il linguaggio e l'invettiva delle metafore, specie se paragonato ai suoi contemporanei. Lo stile di Donne è caratterizzato da sequenze iniziali ex abrupto e vari paradossi, dislocazioni e significati ironici. La sua frequente drammaticità e i discorsi da ritmi giornalieri, la sua tesa sintassi e la sua eloquenza di pensiero furono sia una struggente reazione nei confronti dell'uniformità convenzionale della poetica elisabettiana sia un adattamento in inglese delle tecniche barocche e manieriste europee.

Celebre il suo sermone Nessun uomo è un'isola citato da Ernest Hemingway in epigrafe a Per chi suona la campana, e da cui trae ispirazione un omonimo libro di Thomas Merton. Wikipedia  

✵ 1572 – 31. Marzo 1631
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“Sii il tuo palazzo, o il mondo sarà la tua prigione.”

John Donne

“Nessun uomo è un'isola, completo in se stesso; ogni uomo è un pezzo del continente, una parte del tutto. Se anche solo una zolla venisse lavata via dal mare, l'Europa ne sarebbe diminuita, come se le mancasse un promontorio, come se venisse a mancare una dimora di amici tuoi, o la tua stessa casa. La morte di qualsiasi uomo mi sminuisce, perché io sono parte dell'umanità. E dunque non chiedere mai per chi suona la campana: suona per te.”

John Donne

Origine: Da Meditazione XVII https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditation_XVII in Devozioni per occasioni d'emergenza, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1994, pp. 112-113.

“Dopo un breve sonno, vegliamo in eterno, | e la morte non sarà più: morte, tu morirai.”

John Donne libro Holy Sonnets

Origine: Da Morte non essere orgogliosa, Holy Sonnets, X.

“Ma venga pure la cattiva sorte | le aggiungeremo la nostra forza | le insegneremo l'arte…”

John Donne

Origine: Da Canzone.

“Che i nostri affetti non uccidano noi, né muoiano essi.”

John Donne

Origine: Citato in prefazione a Clive Staples Lewis, I quattro amori, Jaca Book, 1982.

“Debole quell'amore di cui più forte è la paura, | e non è tutto spirito limpido e valoroso | se è misto di timore, di pudore, di onore. | Forse, come le torce che debbono esser pronte | sono accese e rispente, così tu tratti me. | Venisti per accendermi, vai per venire. Ed io | sognerò nuovamente | quella speranza, ma per non morire.”

John Donne

Origine: Da Il sogno.

John Donne Frasi e Citazioni

“I confronti sono odiosi.”

John Donne

Origine: Da Elegy, VIII; citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 296.

Su Dio

“Ma, ahimè, perché così lungamente, | e tanto, freniamo i nostri corpi?”

John Donne

Origine: Da L'Estasi; citato in Charles Morgan, La fontana, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1961.

“Non c'è nulla di quanto Dio ha fondato su una causa naturale costante, e che perciò avviene ogni giorno, che non ci sembrerebbe un miracolo degno di ammirazione se avvenisse una sola volta.”

John Donne

Origine: Da Sermone del giorno di Pasqua, 25 marzo 1627.

Su Dio

“Prendimi a te, imprigionami, perché io | tranne che tu mi soggioghi, non sarò mai libero, | né sarò mai casto, tranne che tu mi usi violenza.”

John Donne

John Donne: Frasi in inglese

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

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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.”

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No. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=eypXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+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%22&pg=PA386#v=onepage, preached at Sion to The Earl of Carlisle and company (c. 1622)
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I
Abjure my so much loved variety.”

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No. 17, Variety, line 1
Elegies

“For I am every dead thing,
In whom love wrought new alchemy.
For his art did express
A quintessence even from nothingness,
From dull privations, and lean emptiness
He ruined me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.”

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A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, stanza 2

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

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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?”

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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.”

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John Donne libro 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.”

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Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.”

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Love's Deity, stanza 1

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

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The Triple Fool, stanza 2

“When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.”

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XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631

“Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?”

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The Sun Rising, stanza 1

“What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?”

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No. 76, preached to the Earl of Carlisle, c. autumn 1622
LXXX Sermons (1640)

“But he who loveliness within
Hath found, all outward loathes,
For he who color loves, and skin,
Loves but their oldest clothes.”

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The Undertaking, stanza 4

“And new philosophy calls all in doubt,
The element of fire is quite put out;
The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit,
Can well direct him where to look for it.
And freely men confess that this world's spent,
When in the planets, and the firmament
They seek so many new; then see that this
Is crumbled out again to his atomies.
'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone;
All just supply, and all relation:
Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.”

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An Anatomy of the World, The First Anniversary

“O my America! my new-found land.”

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

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

“All Kings, and all their favorites,
All glory of honors, beauties, wits
The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass,
Is elder by a year, now, than it was
When thou and I first one another saw:
All other things, to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay;
This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running, it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”

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The Anniversary, stanza 1

“I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease… my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.”

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

“Who ever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes
To sea for nothing but to make him sick.”

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No. 18, Love's Progress, line 1
Elegies

“Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread
Our eyes, upon one double string;
So to entergraft our hands, as yet
Was all the means to make us one,
And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.”

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The Extasy, line 7

“We understood
Her by her sight; her pure, and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,
That one might almost say, her body thought.”

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Of the Progress of the Soul, The Second Anniversary

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

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

“Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,
I shall be made thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
And what I must do then, think here before.”

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Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness, 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.”

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

“Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm
Nor question much
That subtle wreth of hair, which crowns my arm;
The mystery, the sign you must not touch,
For 'tis my outward soul,
Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone,
Will leave this to control,
And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.”

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John Donne The Funeral

The Funeral, stanza 1

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