Philip Sidney Quotes

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor m...

My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear...

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!Grow rich in...

But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an ...

My dear my better half.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partl...

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care...

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and w...

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t...

Stella, the only planet of my light,Light of my life, and life of my desire,Chief good, whereto my h...