美国作家欧内斯特·海明威的长篇小说《丧钟为谁而鸣》的扉页上，曾经引用过一个英国十七世纪玄学派诗人约翰·堂恩的诗歌片断。

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  montory 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 bells tolls;       it tolls for thee。

李敖曾为此诗感动，并将之翻译成中文如下：