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 what name soever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the final end is to lead and draw us to as high a perfection as our degenerate souls, made worse by their clayey lodgings, can be capable of."