Nota Bene: Quotes from Sidney’s Defence of Poesy

“for until they find a pleasure in the exercises of the mind, great promises of much knowledge will little persuade them that know not the fruits of knowledge.”
“[Nature's] world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”
“This purifying of wit–this enriching of memory, enabling of judgement, and enlarging of conceit–which commonly we call learning, under [...]