“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 friend's 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 bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Quotes by John Donne
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ The Autumnal ]”
John DonneJohn Donne was an English poet, scholar, and cleric, renowned as the foremost representative of the metaphysical poets. Born into a recusant family, he navigated a tumultuous early life marked by pove...