“Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!”
The Monk's Tale, l. 3329
The Canterbury Tales
Source: The Riverside Chaucer
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English poet 1343–1400Related quotes
William Langland book Piers Plowman
B-text, Passus 5, line 395
This is the earliest known mention of the legend of Robin Hood. No rhymes of Randolf, Earl of Chester have survived.
Piers Plowman
“All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.”
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"Scholar and Carpenter", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: p>The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.He waits for us, while, houseless things,
We beat about with bruised wings
On the dark floods and water-springs,
The ruined world, the desolate sea;
With open windows from the prime
All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.</p
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Great hymn of thanksgiving" [Grosser Dankchoral] (1920) from The Devotions (1922-1927); trans. Karl Neumann in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 74
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable.”
Bernard Cornwell book Warriors of the Storm
Variant: Fate is inexorable.
Source: Warriors of the Storm
