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A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Q. You also wrote “Super-Infinite,” a book about the 17th century metaphysical poet John Donne. What do you wish people knew about him and his work? He was so wildly original: so funny ...

[N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague ...

2. Bring happiness to others. You are not an island, as the English poet John Donne observed, and working for your own happiness should be part of a bigger project to build a better world.

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