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Edmund Spenser, a renowned English poet, was born in England in 1552. His poetry has had a profound impact on literature, with his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' being hailed as a classic of English literature.

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All Men Heart Ifs Gentle Mind Doe Love May Fall Grace Heaven Sweet Bitter Deeds Grows Ill Poetry Wells World Firsts

Famous Edmund Spenser Quotes

“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.”

Ifs Men Mind Light Heaven Wise Wind Reflection Flow Blow East Folly

Author:Edmund Spenser

“O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.”

Mind Sacred Hunger Ambitious

Author:Edmund Spenser

“But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.”

Mind Heart Desire Speak Teach Fashion My Heart Angel Bounds Tongue Heavenly Within You My Thoughts Frail Chaste

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.”

Men Mind Heaven Attractiveness Allure

Author:Edmund Spenser

“A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.”

Ifs Men World Mind Heart May Whole Body Grace Air Gold Circles Whole World Chests Covetousness Triangles

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“This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.”

World Mind Heart States Misery Iron Lowest

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“Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.”

Mind Kind Courses Gentle Power Of Love

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin

“The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.”

Men Mind Wells Known Deeds Manners Gentle Betrayed

Author:Edmund Spenser

“The noblest mind the best contentment has”

Mind Self Improvement Improvement Contentment

Book:Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Source: Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

About the Author

Born: 1552
Died: January 13, 1599
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 153

Books & Sources

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertationsRelated source material

The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and WritingsRelated source material

Amoretti And EpithalamionRelated source material

Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poemsRelated source material

Minor poemsRelated source material

Poetical worksRelated source material

The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserRelated source material

The Works of Mr. Edmund SpenserRelated source material

Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetryRelated source material

Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)Related source material

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