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Mellin de Saint-Gelais
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frame|right|Mellin de Saint Gelais (1490-1558), chalk drawing by François Clouet (1510-1572), Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly)
Mellin de Saint-Gelais (ca. 1490 – October 1558) was a French writer of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France.
Quotes
It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted
Original: Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir / Que se repentir, et rien faire
Source: Quatrains, LXXVIII
No bird can ever fly / like a heart can rise so high
Original: Il n'est oiseau qui sût voler / Si haut comme un coeur peut aller
Source: Quatrains, LXXXIV
A friendship that can be ended / didn't ever start
Original: Amitié qui se peut finir / Ne fut jamais bien commencée
Source: Oeuvres poétiques
So you must always remember / that time ends the beauty
Original: Ainsi vous doit-il souvenir / Que le temps finit la beauté
Source: Oeuvres poétiques
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Category:Non-fiction authors from France
Category:Poets from France
Category:1490s births
Category:1558 deaths