John Donne

John Donne
22.1. (2.?) 1572 London – 31.3. 1631 London; Geistlicher, Prediger und Lyriker

John Donne (ausgesprochen wie done), metaphysischer Poet und Prediger. Er schrieb Liebesgedichte, religiöse Gedichte, Predigten und Epigramme.

"All mankind is of one author and is one volume."
"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 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 bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Aus: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Das gesamte Zitat "No man is an island [...] and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" stellte Ernest Hemingway seinem Roman For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) voran.

Vergleiche: Johannes Mario Simmel: Niemand ist eine Insel. 1975

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Rezension B.Aubert Marthas Geheimnis –

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