Chaucer Quotes

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

Chaucer is incredibly present. He has an extraordinary capacity to remain modern and contemporary. The language is different, but it only takes a bit of work to be able to read it.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer`s time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

If we took Chaucer`s writings at face value, we`d have to conclude he was a complete drip.

Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer (engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.) nicht genauso gut zitieren könnenwie Mos Def (Schauspieler und Rapper, Anm.d.Red.). Die Wahrheit und das Bewahren des Schönen ist ein klarer Hinweis darauf, dass man lebendig ist.

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer