“No man is an island, entire of itself.”

— John Donne · Friendship quote

No man is an island, entire of itself. — John Donne quote card
Poet and cleric · 1572 – 1631

John Donne was an English poet and clergyman, the leading figure of the metaphysical poets. His love poems, sermons and prose meditations, including the Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, are famed for their wit and spiritual intensity.

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