I Am
Poem
Meditation XVII – Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
No man is an island, entire of itself; 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 friend’s 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.
John Donne
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Read by Maite Jáuregui
Music
Armenian Spirit, Menk Kadj tohmi
Jordi Savall
Image
The Mill, Rembrandt van Rijn
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington