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Date: 1593

"And care consumes the minde of man, / as fire melts Virgin Waxe."

— Churchyard, Thomas (1523?-1604)

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Date: 1595 [c. 1579 in ms.]

The poet is "a passionate lover of that unspeakable and everlasting bewtie to be seene by the eyes of the mind"

— Sidney, Philip, Sir (1554-1586)

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Date: 1595 [c. 1579 in ms.]

"Only the poet, disdaining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow, in effect, into another nature, in making things either better than nature brings forth, or, quite anew, forms such as never were in nature, as the heroes, demi-gods, cyclops, c...

— Sidney, Philip, Sir (1554-1586)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.