“Look in thy heart and write.” — Sir Philip Sidney

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“Look in thy heart and write.” — Sir Philip Sidney

“[The poet] doth grow in effect another nature, as the Heroes, Demigods, Cyclopes, Chimeras, Furies, and such like: so as he goeth hand in hand with nature, not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely, ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit.” — Sir Philip Sidney, Apology for Poesy, 1595 Sir Philip Sidney was born on this day in 1554, and so this means he was on the planet at the same time as Shakespeare. His poems are…