Metaphysical Poetry Quotes

“A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility. When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.”
― Anonymous, Metaphysical Poetry

“he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who colour loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.”
― Anonymous, Metaphysical Poetry