Quotes by John Denham

• Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
• Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
• Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
• Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
• Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
• We are never like angels till our passion dies.