John Donne Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

• I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

  John Donne

  Love, Two, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Triple Fool'

• I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

  John Donne

  Love, Hate, Men

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.242

• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

  John Donne

  Love, Beauty, Sarcastic

  'Elegies' 'The Anagram' (1593-6)

• Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Rags

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

• Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

  John Donne

  Love, Jesus, Strong

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.18

• Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

  John Donne

  Love, Book, Soul

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.123, Oxford University Press, USA

• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  John Donne

  Love, Running, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

• I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

  John Donne

  Love, Long, Ghost

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Love's Deity'

• Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

• Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

  John Donne

  Love, Sweet, Art

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics

• Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

  John Donne

  Love, Angel, Flames

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Air and Angels'

• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

• This Extasie doth unperplex (We said) and tell us what we love, Wee see by this, it was not sexe, Wee see, we saw not what did move: But as all severall soules contain Mixture of things, they know not what, Love, these mixt souls, doth mixe againe. Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

  John Donne

  Love, Moving, Soul

• Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

  John Donne

  Love, Nature, Taught

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.26, Litres

• The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

  John Donne

  Love, Sex, Phoenix

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.238, Harvard University Press

• For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

  John Donne

  Love, Art, Darkness

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Bed

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

• But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

  John Donne

  Love, Color, Clothes

  John Donne (2013). “Love poems”, p.9, Lulu.com

• The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

  John Donne

  Love, Heaven, Should

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

• Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

  John Donne

  Love, Death, Self

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go'

• And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

  John Donne

  Love, Forget, Dare

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.254

• I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

  John Donne

  Love, Country, Wonder

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

• Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

  John Donne

  Love, Soul, Dull

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.555

• When I died last, and, Dear, I die
  As often as from thee I go
  Though it be but an hour ago,
  And lovers' hours be full eternity.

  John Donne

  Love, Retirement, Farewell

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'

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