Canterbury Tales

Famous quotes containing the words canterbury and/or tales:

“Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.”
—Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)

“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)