Famous quotes containing the words donne and/or wrote:
“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask,
on their mountain, gold-hunting, singing, in orgy,
it was a mask; when I wrote of the god,
fragmented, exiled from himself, his life, the love gone down with song,
it was myself, split open, unable to speak, in exile from myself.
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No more masks! No more mythologies!”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)