#john donne

[daffodil--lament]

GUYS.

HE WAS QUOTING JOHN DONNE

#life changing moment to read this poem and Realize. #hmc #howl's moving castle #howls moving castle #howl pendragon #diana wynne jones #john donne #keys.txt

[alwaysalreadyangry]

HAPPY ST LUCIE'S DAY

#john donne #lit #poems

[sivavakkiyar]

For Dr. Alareer, who’d read it right, one of the latest Donne poems:

#John Donne

[bookwyrminspiration]

what do you mean you don't understand cannibalism as erotic devotion. what do you mean you don't care that god is a jealous lover and we make a holy temple of our bedroom with our carnal desire. babe please

#shitpost #every day I wake up and think of that one robert herrick poem #and that other guy too i forget his name one second #john donne #i LOVE #how do I put it into words #the concept of corrupted devotion being beautiful #like jonathan with mina

[burningvelvet]

“Divorce me, untie or break that knot again, / Take me to you, imprison me, for I, / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”

Excerpt from Holy Sonnets: Holy Sonnet XIV aka Batter my heart, three-person'd God (1633) by John Donne / Sculptures by Stephan Sinding at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen; Tapmak [Adoration] (1903) and Slaven [The Slave] (1878)

#literature #english literature #dark academia #aesthetic #poetry #poet #poem #john donne #metaphysical poetry #renaissance #1600s #17th century #english poetry #donne #holy sonnets #romantic #romance #sonnet #lit #reading #quotes #excerpts #quote #love quote #love #art #sculpture #photography #museum #statue

[beguines]

Donne's mind was cacophonous. His relentless imagination was his single most constant feature; he wrote about his "worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptique immoderate desire of humane learning". In his darker moments, it tortured him. His mind had ceaselessness built into it. It was to be, throughout his life, a site of new images, new theology, new doubts: even those who disliked his work acknowledged that he was a writer who had erupted through the old into the new. A contemporary wrote that, with him, it was "the lazy seeds / of servile imitation thrown away / and fresh invention planted".

But the always of that imagination must have been exhausting. For a mind like that, sex—real sex, true sex—would allow a singleness to hush the multitudinous mind. It's why so much of Donne's imagery around sex is so totalising: the man and woman become one, the woman becomes a state, a country, a planet. Sex, for Donne and those like him: permission, for those who watch the world with such feverish care, to turn one person into the world and to watch only them. It was a transforming of his constant seeking for knowledge. To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen.

Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

#katherine rundell #super-infinite #john donne

[shihlun]

Sogo Ishii

- Angel Dust

1994

#Sogo Ishii #Gakuryu Ishii #Gakuryū Ishii #石井聰互 #石井岳龍 #Angel Dust #エンジェル・ダスト #japanese film #1994 #Kaho Minami #南果歩 #Takeshi Wakamatsu #若松武史 #john donne

[soulmaking]

#john donne #quotes #words #poetry #poems #poets #literature #lit #letters #kisses #love #souls

[talkingpiffle]

I didn't find any Sayers at the Antiquarian Book Fair this year, but did spot this John Donne first edition that Lord Peter might have wanted for his collection.

#dorothy l. sayers #lord peter wimsey #rare books #john donne #it may not be an incunable but we all know that peter has always been queer about donne #book collecting

[mirefireflies]

“the end is neverending.”

the end is where we begin — thousand foot krutch / that’s not how the story goes — daniel handler and nick urata (a series of unfortunate events) / undertow, ouroboros, and dancing with a stranger — natalia schäfer / a valediction: forbidden mourning — john donne / the end — mark strand / endings (n/a) — elly smallwood / afternoon in february — henry wadsworth longfellow / every thing on it — shel silverstein / road to hell (reprise) — hadestown

#shall we make this post all over again #it’ll never be different #web weaving #circular narratives #it was always going to end this way #that’s just how the story goes #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #thousand foot krutch #ouroboros #natalia schäfer #john donne #mark strand #elly smallwood #henry wadsworth longfellow #shel silverstein #hadestown

[leohtttbriar]

This whole article about John Donne is so sexy but this passage in particular!

Anahid Nersessian, "A Vivisectional Style"

#literary criticism #poetry #john donne #out comes STUFF

[spacieacademic]

Me *writing my essay on John Donne that's due in two hours*: For Bunny Corcoran

#dark academia #tsh #the secret history #bunny corcoran #donna tartt #john donne #metaphysical poetry

[derangedrhythms]

John Donne, from ‘The Sun Rising’

#john donne #the sun rising #poetry #excerpts #killing the spring #that old villain the sun

[florenceisfalling]

TAKE ME TO YOU, IMPRISON ME, FOR I, EXCEPT YOU ENTHRALL ME, NEVER SHALL ME FREE NOR EVER CHASTE, EXCEPT YOU RAVISH ME.

did this one for an english assignment, i'm very happy with it. now that its been a day since putting the speedpaint up on my channel, here it is for you!

#my art #john donne #batter my heart #rebelle 5 #astraea #religion #preacher kid blues #blood tw #gore tw #religious imagery tw

[fidjiefidjie]

“La mer est aussi profonde dans le calme que dans la tempête.”

John Donne

Gif :bienvenuechezlydie

#gif animé #tempête #mer #phare #lighthouse #océan #météo #quotes #john donne #fidjie fidjie

[beguines]

There is the meat and madness of sex in his work – but, more: Donne's poetry believed in finding eternity through the human body of one other person. It is for him akin to sacrament. Sacramentum is the translation in the Latin Bible for the Greek word for mystery: and Donne knew it when he wrote, 'We die and rise the same, and prove/Mysterious by this love.' He knew awe: 'All measure, and all language, I should pass/Should I tell what a miracle she was.' And in 'The Ecstasy', love is both a mystery and its solution. He needed to invent a word, 'unperplex', to explain:

'This ecstasy doth unperplex,' / We said, 'and tell us what we love…' / But as all several souls contain / Mixture of things, they know not what, / Love these mixed souls doth mix again, / And makes both one, each this and that.

Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

#katherine rundell #super-infinite #john donne