Famous quotes containing the words donne and/or wrote:
“License my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“I am devoted to those who endured, like Colette. It is easier ... to kiss the world a bitter goodbye than to go on working, writing, changing, enduring the slings & arrows of outrageous aging. Colette endured. And she wrote & wrote & wrote. Whenever I feel really depressed, I think of her & keep going.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)