John Donne, English Poet, 1572-1631, Part 1
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...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness. No man is an island, entire of itself. 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.
Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee.
So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
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¶ 7/20/2005 01:06:00 PM
