No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
John Donne
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII (1624); Complete prose sentence in Meditation XVII, not a standalone poem. Wording follows the modernized spelling of this documented edition; context is shared humanity and mortality.
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII (1624)
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