Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.
Read more about Edmund Waller: Early Life, Early Parliamentary Career, Marriage, Speeches, "Waller's Plot", Banishment, Return To England, Later Life, Verse
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“Take heed, fair Eve! you do not make
Another tempter of this snake;
A marble one so warmed would speak.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”
—Sir Edmund Leach (20th century)
“Poets that lasting Marble seek
Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
We write in Sand, our Language grows,
And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)