François Villon quotes
François Villon was a French poet, renowned for his penetrating and often rebellious verse in the late Middle Ages. His life was marked by poverty, crime, and exile, which deeply influenced his work. He became a legendary figure in French literature, remembered both for his poetry and his turbulent life. Here are 21 of his quotes:
The Large Testament is a hurly-burly of cynical and sentimental reflections about life, jesting legacies to friends and enemies, and, interspersed among these many admirable ballades, both serious and absurd. With so free a design, no thought that occurred to him would need to be dismissed without expression; and he could draw at full length the portrait of his own bedevilled soul, and of the bleak and blackguardly world which was the theatre of his exploits and sufferings. If the reader can conceive something between the slap-dash inconsequence of Byron's Don Juan and the racy humorous gravity and brief noble touches that distinguish the vernacular poems of Burns, he will have formed some idea of Villon's style. To the latter writer – except in the ballades, which are quite his own, and can be paralleled from no other language known to me – he bears a particular resemblance.
François Villon
François Villon
Occupation: French Poet
Born: 1431
Died: 1463
Quotes count: 21
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