Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) might take some pleasure of my pain;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
