Author: John Donne
Cited by
- Cyril Wong (1)
- IN: Tilting our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
FROM: The Sun Rising, (1663), Poem, UK
- Thomas Wolfe (1)
- IN: Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Bildungsroman, American
EPIGRAPH: "Then, as all my soules bee,
Emparadis'd in you, (in whom alone
I understand, and growand see,)
The rafters of my body,bone
Being still with you, the Muscle,Sinew and Veine,
Which tile the huse, will come again
FROM: A Valediction of my Name, In the Window, (None), Poem, UK
- Vikram Seth (1)
- IN: An Equal Music (1999) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: And into that gate they shall enter, and in that house they shall dwell, where there shall be no cloud nor sun, no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light, no noise nor silence, but one equal music, no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession, no foes nor friends, but one equal communion and identity, no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity.
FROM: Sermon CXLVI, (1627), Lecture / sermon, UK
- S Mahadevan Flint (1)
- IN: Partners in Crime: A Singapore Murder Mystery (2005) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: No man is an island, entire of itself... / any man's death diminishes me, / because I am involved in mankind; / and therefore never send to know / for whom the bell tolls; / it tolls for thee.
FROM: Meditation XVII, (1624), Poem, UK
- Shamini Flint (1)
- IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villany (2010) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: No man is an island, entire of itself... / any man's death diminishes me, / because I am involved in mankind; / and therefore never send to know / for whom the bell tolls; / it tolls for thee.
FROM: Meditation XVII, (1624), Poem, UK
- Kate Hendrick (1)
- IN: The Accident (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: No man is an island.
FROM: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, (1624), Book, UK
- Sally Nicholls (1)
- IN: An Island of Our Own (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
FROM: MEDITATION XVII
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, (1624), NULL, UK
- Brenna Yovanoff (1)
- IN: Paper Valentine (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
FROM: No Man is an Island, (1624), Poem, UK
- Dorothy Sayers (1)
- IN: Gaudy Night (1935) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The University is a Paradise. Rivers of Knowledge are there. Arts and Sciences flow from thence. Counsell Tables are Horti conclusi, (as is said in the Canticles) Gardens that are walled in, and they are Fontes signali, Wells that are sealed up; bottomless depths of unsearchable Counsels there.
FROM: Sermon XIV, (1624), Essay, UK
- John Connolly (1)
- IN: Every Dead Thing (1999) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: I am every dead thing... I am re-begot
Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.
FROM: A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, (1633), Poem, UK
- Robert Parker (1)
- IN: Valediction (1984) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: like gold to airy thinness beat
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
FROM: A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning, (1633), Poem, UK
- Neil Gaiman (1)
- IN: Stardust (1999) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Go, and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil’s foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy’s stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be’est born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell me
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
Nowhere
Lives a woman true, and fair.
If thou find’st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet,
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
FROM: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, (1633), Song, UK
- Graham Swift (1)
- IN: Tomorrow (2007) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Were we not wean'd till then?
FROM: The Good-Morrow, (1633), Poem, UK
- Ali Smith (1)
- IN: There But For The (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Of longitudes, what other way have we,
But to mark when and where the dark eclipses be?
FROM: Valediction: Of the Book, (1633), Poem, UK
- Julie Garwood (1)
- IN: For the Roses (1995) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: No man is an island, entire of it self;
every man is a piece of the continent, a
part of the main; if a clod be washed
away by the sea, Europe is the less, as
well as if a promontory were, as well as
if a manor of thy friends or of thine own
were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind; and
therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
FROM: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Meditation XVII, (1624), Book, UK
- Nora Roberts (2)
- IN: Savour the Moment (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we lov’d?
FROM: The Good-Morrow, (1633), Poem, UK
- IN: Rapture in Death (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But I do nothing upon myself,
yet am mine own Executioner.
FROM: Meditation XII, (1624), Book, UK
- Elizabeth Buchan (1)
- IN: Separate Beds (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere'
FROM: The Sun Rising, (1633), Poem, UK
- Philip Kerr (1)
- IN: The Other Side of Silence (2016) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: He ruin’d me, and I am re-begot
Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.
FROM: A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, (1633), Poem, UK
- Millen Brand (1)
- IN: The Outward Room (1937) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Think then, my soule, that death is but a Groome,
Which brings a Taper to the outward roome,
Whence thou spiest first a little glimmering light,
And after brings it nearer to thy sight:
For such approaches doth heaven make in death.
FROM: Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary, (1621), Poem, UK
- Rachel Billington (1)
- IN: The Missing Boy (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The Day Breaks not, it is my Heart
FROM: Stay, O Sweet, (1669), Poem, UK
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1)
- IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "And his short minute, after noon, is night"
FROM: A Lecture upon the Shadow, (1896), Poem, UK
- Walter Scott (1)
- IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: For pleas of right let statesmen vex their head,
Battle’s my business, and my guerdon bread;
And, with the sworded Switzer, I can say,
The best of causes is the best of pay.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- John Hornor Jacobs (1)
- IN: The Twelve-Fingered Boy (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
FROM: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, (1633), Poem, UK
- Thomas Harris (1)
- IN: The Silence of the Lambs (1988) Horror Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Need I look upon a death’s head in a ring, that have one in my face?
FROM: “Devotions”, (1624), NULL, UK
- Anthony Quinn (1)
- IN: Freya (2016) Historical Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Who is so safe as we? Where none can do
Treason to us, except one of us two.
FROM: The Anniversary, (1601), Poem, UK
- William Nicholson (1)
- IN: Reckless (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you
As yet but knock...
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betrothed unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie me, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthral me, never shall be free,
Not ever chaste, except you ravish me.
FROM: Holy Sonnet XIV, (None), NULL, UK
- Lauren Kate (1)
- IN: Rapture (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All other things to their destruction draw,
Only our love hath no decay. . . .
FROM: The Anniversary, (1601), Poem, UK