John Donne
English poet and clergyman
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language thou art too narrow, and too weake
To ease us now; great sorrow cannot speake;
If we could sigh out accents, and weepe words,
Griefe weares, and lessens, that tears breath affords
—John Donne, English poet and clergyman, Elegy, 1609
Posted on March 25, 1998 at 10:25 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
—John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Posted on October 5, 2001 at 3:14 PM
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