Edmund Spenser Quotes

"I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Time, Reason)

"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Death, Genius, Monuments, Poets, Will)

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Death, Life, War, Sleep)

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Delight, Liberty)

"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Mind, Poor)

"He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw."
- Edmund Spenser

"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Gold)

"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Stars)

"Each goodly thing is hardest to begin."
- Edmund Spenser

"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
- Edmund Spenser
(Related: Eye, Heaven)