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)
“You remind me of a child-friend who once wrote to tell me about her sister being married. “Now I will tell you all about Bessie’s wedding.” Then came a long account of bridesmaids, and breakfast, and everything else, except the name of the bride-groom! That of course didn’t matter: the great thing was to get married somehow.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)