“ It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. Philip Sidney
“ If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, a… Philip Sidney
“ Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all othe… Philip Sidney
“ The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Philip Sidney
“ Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write. Philip Sidney
“ Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.Draw in thy beams, and humb… Philip Sidney
“ Stella, the only planet of my light,Light of my life, and life of my desire,Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,World of my wealth, and heav'n of my delight:Why dost thou spend the treasure o… Philip Sidney
“ But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an actual truth, and so, not being true, proveth a falsehood. And doth the lawyer lie then, when, under… Philip Sidney
“ Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;With shield of pr… Philip Sidney
“ My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a bargain better driven. Philip Sidney
