Франсуа Вийон цитаты
Франсуа Вийон
Дата рождения: 1. Апрель 1431
Дата смерти: 1463
Франсуа́ Вийо́н — поэт французского Средневековья. Первый французский лирик позднего Средневековья.
Цитаты Франсуа Вийон
„My days are quickly spent.“
— Francois Villon
Alternative translation: My days are gone a-wandering.
Line 217.
„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.“
— Francois Villon
Robert Louis Stevenson Familiar Studies of Men and Books (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882), ch. 6.
„We were two, but only had one heart.“
— Francois Villon
Alternative translation: We were two and had but one heart between us.
Line 986; "Lay".
„Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.“
— Francois Villon
Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Francois Villon, Prince of all Ballad-Makers" (1878), line 10.
„Through wind, hail or frost my living's made.
I am a lecher, and she's a lecher with me.
Which one of us is better? We're both alike:
The one as worthy as the other. Bad rat, bad cat.
We both love filth, and filth pursues us;
We flee from honor, honor flees from us,
In this brothel where we ply our trade.“
— Francois Villon
Line 1621; "Ballade de la Grosse Margot (Ballade for Fat Margot)".
„But where are the snows of bygone years?“
— Francois Villon
Alternative translation: But where are the snows of yesteryear?
Line 336; "Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis (Ballade of the Ladies of Bygone Times)".
„But where is last year's snow? This was the greatest care that Villon, the Parisian poet, took.“
— Francois Villon
François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Chapter xiv.
„Brother men who after us live on,
Harden not your hearts against us.“
— Francois Villon
"L'Epitaphe Villon (Villon's Epitaph)", or "Ballade des Pendus (Ballade of the Hanged)", line 1. (1463).
„Prince, I know all, in short,
I know pink cheeks from wan,
I know Death all-devouring,
I know all, save myself.“
— Francois Villon
"Ballade des Menus Propos (Ballade of Small Talk)", line 25. (1458).
„But whatever may be said about the life of work,
There is no treasure quite like living at one's ease.“
— Francois Villon
Line 1501; "Ballade: Les Contrediz de Franc Gontier (Ballade: Franc Gontier Refuted)".
„Prince, give the prize for chatter
To Parisian women; whatever
May be said about Italians,
There is no tongue like one from Paris.“
— Francois Villon
Line 1539; "Ballade des Femmes de Paris (Ballade of the Women of Paris)".
