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John Donne

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John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet, satirist, lawyer and preacher/cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the founding figure of the so-called metaphysical poetry movement.


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Quote Left SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls, For thus, friends absent speak. Quote Right
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Quote Left No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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 mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. Quote Right
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Quote Left He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. Quote Right
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Quote Left Be your own palace, or the world is your jail. Quote Right
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