Mary McCarthy
Author
"You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.""
Chaucer quotes
Chaucer
5 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet, Novelist
"And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company."
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