The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. - Philip Sidney

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The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Philip Sidney

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Sir Philip Sidney (November 30 1554 – October 17 1586) was an English courtier, soldier, poet and romancer. He was a friend and patron of Edmund Spenser, whose poetry he deeply influenced. During his own lifetime he attracted extraordinary admiration throughout Europe as the model of a Christian knight and chivalrous gentleman.

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Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight

As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.

Open suspecting others comes of secret condemning themselves.

The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. - Philip Sidney

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