• John Donne ⋅ « Devotions upon Emergent Occasions » 15 09 20

    Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world ; than the world doth, nay than the world is. And if those pieces were exten­ded, and stret­ched out in man as they are in the world, man would be the giant, and the world the dwarf ; the world but the map, and the man the world. If all the veins in our bodies were exten­ded to rivers, and all the sinews to veins of mines, and all the muscles that lie upon one ano­ther, to hil­ls, and all the bones to quar­ries of stones, and all the other pieces to…