John Donne
a portrait of John Donne as a young man
c. 1595, artist unknown
London National Portrait Gallery
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Donne_BBC_News.jpg)
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c. 1595, artist unknown
London National Portrait Gallery
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Donne_BBC_News.jpg)
no copyright infringement intended
A page from John Donne is like a fugue by Bach (I'm quoting here approximately from a movie I enjoyed). Listen here: no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main... 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... (I'm quoting freely from MEDITATION XVII. NUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS).
[Nici un om nu este o insulă care să-şi fie întreagă; orice om este o piesă a continentului, o parte a oceanului cel larg... întreaga omenire este a unui singur autor, şi este un singur volum; când un om moare, nu este rupt un capitol din carte, ci este tălmăcit într-un alt grai, de esenţă mai aleasă]
(A Life in Books)
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