Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidneywas an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 November 1554
behalf cannot curse die earth favour itself lacking lift love memory mind poetry send skill sky thus
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, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
beauty lovely battle
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.
hate ambition like-love
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
love poverty safe
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
life love-life quake
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
love wings burden
Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.
love mourning bells
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
angel kissing things-i-love
**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life....
lovers virtue scorn
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
party love-is self
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
love marriage wedding
My true love hath my heart, and I have his
judging may clemency
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
moon sky faces
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
learned
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.