people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer…

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

— Anonymous

People can die of mere imagination.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Infinity is just a mere imagination like a large number of Human Needs which can never be fulfilled by Man.

— TheSaintsays

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed…

— Rick Moody

“English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.”

— Robert Graves

“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of life. The…

— Ronald Carter

“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24…

— Jacopo della Quercia

“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of…

— Jack Weatherford

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”

— Anonymous

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations. As one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight,…

— William Blake