John Donne Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: January 22, 1572 - March 31, 1631
Birthday: January 22
Death: March 31
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....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.
source: 1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.
topic: Book, Men, Islands, Whom The Bell Tolls, Diminish, Congregation
