“To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend,
All is the purlieu of the god of love.”
Love's Deity, stanza 3
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John Donne115
English poet 1572–1631Related quotes
“Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.”
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru
Source: A Practical Guide to Samadhi (1957), p. 144
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor
Source: Hawthorn and Lavender (1901), XXI
Context: Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
So man and woman will keep their trust,
Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
And they that go with the Word unsaid,
Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.
“God is love, but get it in writing.”
Gypsy Rose Lee (1911–1970) American burlesque performer, actress, author
As quoted in The New York Times (1 Decemeber 1988), and The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) edited by Fred R. Shapiro
“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
Terry Pratchett book Going Postal
Source: Going Postal
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
