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Anima, who represents the soul, initially is a beautiful woman who resides in a castle made of the four elements, which represents the human body. She lives with a duke named Do-Well, his daughter named Do-Better, and a bishop’s peer named “Do-Best.” Anima is guarded by the five senses—the five sons of a knight named Sir Inwit. Later in the poem, Anima is male and is the last teacher Will meets. Anima’s teachings primarily focus on charity.
Anima Quotes in Piers Plowman
The Piers Plowman quotes below are all either spoken by Anima or refer to Anima. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Passus XV
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And for an example see how on trees in the summer time
There are some boughs that bear leaves and some bear none.
There is some sickness in the root of such sots of trees;
Just so parsons and priests and preachers of Holy Church
Are the root of the right faith to rule the people;
But where the root is rotten…
Shall never flower nor fruit grow nor fair leaf be green.
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Therefore by color nor by clergy, you’ll never come to know him,
Neither through words nor works, but through will alone,
And no clerk knows that, nor creature on earth
But Piers the Plowman, Petrus id est Christus.
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Anima Quotes in Piers Plowman
The Piers Plowman quotes below are all either spoken by Anima or refer to Anima. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Passus XV
Quotes
And for an example see how on trees in the summer time
There are some boughs that bear leaves and some bear none.
There is some sickness in the root of such sots of trees;
Just so parsons and priests and preachers of Holy Church
Are the root of the right faith to rule the people;
But where the root is rotten…
Shall never flower nor fruit grow nor fair leaf be green.
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Therefore by color nor by clergy, you’ll never come to know him,
Neither through words nor works, but through will alone,
And no clerk knows that, nor creature on earth
But Piers the Plowman, Petrus id est Christus.
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