“Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.”

— Edmund Spenser, Another [Epitaph] of the Same (1586), line 20

About Edmund Spenser

1552 – 1599

English poet, author of the epic "The Faerie Queene".

“The noblest mind the best contentment has.”

“I trow that countenance cannot lie, / Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.”

“I hate the day, because it lendeth light / To see all things, but not my love to see.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”