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

— Edmund Spenser, Daphnaida (1591 or '92), line 407

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.”

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

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”