Quote of the Day (John Donne, on a Time With ‘All Coherence Gone’)

“'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,
All just supply, and all relation;
Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,
For every man alone thinks he hath got
To be a phoenix, and that then can be
None of that kind, of which he is, but he.
This is the world's condition now.”—English poet John Donne (c. 1572-1631), “An Anatomy of the World,” originally published in 1611