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DRAMATISTS > poet > John Donne
When I must...
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When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
Source: Letter, Sep 1608; published in Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. by John Hayward, 1929.
-- John Donne, ( 1573-1631), English poet; Metaphysical poet who wrote sonnet Death Be Not Proud.