John Donne Quotes About Age

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  Ninguna belleza de primavera o verano tiene tanta gracia como la que he visto en un rostro otoñal.

  John Donne

  Belleza, Verano, Primavera

  Elegías Otoñales (1599-1601)

• God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

  John Donne

  War, Justice, Age

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

• All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

  John Donne

  Life, War, Book

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.574

• All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Law, Soul

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

• En los rincones imaginados de la tierra redonda, tocad vuestras trompetas, ángeles, y levantaos, levantaos de la muerte, vosotros infinitos de almas **** Todos los que la guerra, la escasez, la edad, las agues, las tiranías, la desesperación, la ley, el azar, han matado.

  John Donne

  War, Angel, Blow

  John Donne, John Daniel Thieme (2014). “John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme”, p.23, Vicarage Hill Press

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