What did John Donne mean by: It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. - John Donne Poet · England Copy
+ Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant. Feraz Zeid, November 1, 2023December 26, 2023, John Donne, Ants, Superiority, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ In heaven it is always autumn. Feraz Zeid, July 24, 2023December 12, 2023, John Donne, Autumn, Heaven, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love? Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Donne, Declaration, Inward, Love, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Donne, Law, Soul, War, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Donne, Heaven, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Donne, Courses, Critical, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ Friends are ourselves. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 12, 2023, John Donne, Friendship, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
+ Sleep is pain’s easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Donne, Office, Pain, Sleep, 0 - John Donne Poet · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France