Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: 'Fool!' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'
Source: Sonnet, Astrophel and Stella.
-- Philip Sidney, (Nov 30 1554-1586), English courtier, statesman; He was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.