Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
imagination people literature
People can die of mere imagination.
age world als
But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.
Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
desire
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
time may
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
jest true-words
Many a true word is spoken in jest
complaining want breathe
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
winning skills demand
To keep demands as much skill as to win.
men possession ifs
Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
may dice literature
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
wise
Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
rose royalty
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
fate handsome talent
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
hearing heard
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.