John Donne

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

John Donne "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

Life and Death

"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

John Donne "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions"

God and Religion

"We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers' wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

John Donne "Eighty Sermons"

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death