Famous quotes containing the words donne and/or wrote:
“Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. ...If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)