“To be wise and eke to love, / Is graunted scarce to God above.”

— Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), March

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.”

“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel—farewell! farewell!”

“The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.”

“I know now that Jesus is right, that love is the way.”

“What do you know of Love except the name?”

“I don't know about hope, but I do know about love.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”