Middle English Romance

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

    “At middle night great cats with silver claws,
    Bodies of shadow and blind eyes like pearls,
    Came up out of the hole, and red-eared hounds
    With long white bodies came out of the air
    Suddenly, and ran at them and harried them.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “The romance and mystery is [sic] gone. Computer-processed images have no delicacy, no craftsmanship, no substance, and no soul. No love.”
    —Kim Nibblett (b. c. 1969)