Famous quotes containing the words donne and/or wrote:
“But I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)