"There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets."

--

Source : Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.87, Manchester University Press

Philip Sidney

#Names Quotes #Answers Quotes #Needs Quotes

“People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.”
“With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.”
“For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.”
“At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.”
“I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.”
“Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.”
“The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.”

Source : "Nick Bostrom on the Future, Transhumanism and the End of the World". Interview with Jonathan McCalmont, ieet.org. January 22, 2007.
“Everything is going to work out-there's no other option.”

You may also like:

Ben Jonson
Playwright
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatist
Edmund Spenser
Poet
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
1st Baron Brooke
Henry Fielding
Novelist
John Donne
Poet
Samuel Daniel
Poet
Thomas Wyatt
Poet
Walter Raleigh
Writer