Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behnwas a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 December 1640
soul mind world
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.
death today gone
Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.
children saint young
There is no sinner like a young saint.
learning bards spokes
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
time ems mediums
time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
wise men thinking
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
soul pleasure variety
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
sex privilege poet
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
love positive birthday
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
perfect faithful library
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
english-dramatist learning
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.