“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man  dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a  better language, and every chapter must be so translated. God  employs several translators: some pieces are translated by age, some  by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God’s hand is in every  translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again  for that library where every book shall be open to one another.”

—from John Donne, Meditation XVII.