Middle English Romance

Famous quotes containing the words middle, english and/or romance:

    Everything comes to him
    From the middle of his field. The odor
    Of earth penetrates more deeply than any word.
    There he touches his being. There as he is
    He is.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
    Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

    She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)