Occupation: Poet Birth: July 20, 1304 Death: July 19, 1374
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between o….
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness..
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands..
Virtue is health, vice is sickness..
A good death does honour to a whole life..
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above th….
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling..
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue..
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing th….
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own..
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified..
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere..
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars..
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; No….
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream..
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief..
To be able to say how much love, is love but little..
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!.
And tears are heard within the harp I touch..
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand..
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown..