Nina's Blog - Wednesday 1st May 2024

Wednesday 1st May 2024, 14:58

I wanted to check the exact wording of one of Donne's famous remarks. Google came up with this:


I suppose it could be classed as self help but it's hardly a book.

Here is the whole of it as it appears in the text in most books:
[quote]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 a 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. [/quote]

When displayed alone it's usually formatted as though it were a poem:
[quote]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 a 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.[/quote]