Quoting Junie2006:

THE ISLAND: (John Donne) Isolation vs. Interconnectedness of Mankind

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,
The World is the less
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind myself

And of ourselves...

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...

junie

THE ISLAND: (John Donne) Isolation vs. Interconnectedness of Mankind

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,
The World is the less
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind myself

And of ourselves...

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...

junie