No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Devotions on Emergent Occasions, Meditation 17 (1624)
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Donne, John
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God
John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Devotions on Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII (1624)
Death be not proud, though some have callèd thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Holy Sonnets, No. 10, “Death Be Not Proud,” ll. 1-4 (1609)
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From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow.John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Holy Sonnets, No. 10, “Death Be Not Proud,” ll. 5-6 (1609)
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One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Holy Sonnets, No. 10, “Death Be Not Proud,” ll. 13-14 (1609)
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right;
By thee we reach divinity.John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Letter to the Countess of Bedford (1610)
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.John Donne (1572-1631) English poet
Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton (1597)