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John Donne Quotes

For this, Love is enraged with me; Yet kills not. If I must example be. To future rebels, if the unborn Must learn by my being cut up and torn, Kill and dissect me, Love; for this. Torture against thine own end is: Racked carcasses make ill anatomies

John Donne

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