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












For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
More John Donne quotes
"Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat. If they be tw...
"That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
"Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
"I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
"If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
"If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
"Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.
"All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than...
"Go and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to hear mermaids si...
"I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.
"This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.
"Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.
"Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting da...
"Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;She gives the best light to his sphere;Or each is both, and all, and soThey unto one another nothing owe;And ...