John Donne a-t-il vraiment dit « No man is an island » ?

John Donne a-t-il vraiment dit « No man is an island » ?

Trouvé mot pour mot. Oui. Le texte figure dans des œuvres attribuées à John Donne. Source et emplacement ci-dessous.

Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns me;
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel — John Donne, ¶607 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #23772 · source

"I started out to express in terms of strings and winds the emotions roused in me by the sight and thoughts of the Grass, much as LvB took a mistaken idealization of his youth as a startingpoint for Opus 55; but just as no man is an island, so no theme stands alone. There is a cord binding the lesser to the greater; a mystic union between all things. The Grass is not an entity, but an aspect. I th
Greener Than You Think — Ward Moore, ¶1508 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #24246 · source

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