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
truth men may
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
sauce woe culinary
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
canterbury-tales middle-english canterbury
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
birthday time men
Time and tide wait for no man.
men clerks oratory
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
abstinence approved
Abstinence is approved of God.
grief heart flesh
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
men may
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
pain rain heaven
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
death stars men
In the stars is written the death of every man.
sad good-night goodnight
All good things must come to an end.
inspirational-love farewell love-is
For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.
Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.