Richard C. Holloway wrote:
> Dave Patterson wrote:
>
> > "No man is an island" -- Song lyric (Simon & Garfunkel)
>
> Dave--great message, and I've saved it to read it over again. Just
> couldn't resist (the poet in me) to correctly attribute the above line
> (though p. simon did write the song, he borrowed the line). "no man is an
> island, entire within himself. each man is a piece of the continent, a
> part of the whole . . . so ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for
> thee." a quick quote (from memory--please excuse any errors in this) from
> the poem of the same name by John Donne. A great poet for many of you
> LO'ers to reread. (and I'll willingly be corrected by any of you of
> sharper memory or the copy!)
The words are Donne's but the concept is borrowed:
Romans 14:7
"For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself."
This work of Donne's was published, I believe, in a book titled "Devotions
upon Emergent Occasions." Appropriate title, no?
Interestingly, Donne and his contemporary, Andrew Marvell, are known as
the metaphysical poets. They do indeed, make good reading, given the
nature of this forum's discussions.
Bob Clements
--clements@tng.net (Clements, Bob)
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