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Quotes by Joachim du Bellay

French poet, 1522–1560

A friend of Ronsard and a member of the Pléiade, Joachim du Bellay wrote in 1549 the Defence and Illustration of the French Language, a manifesto for a French poetry equal to the ancients. Four years in Rome in the service of his uncle, a cardinal, inspired The Antiquities of Rome and The Regrets (1558), where homesickness became one of the great themes of French poetry.

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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or like that one who won the fleece, and then came home, full of experience and sense, to live among his kin the rest of his days!

Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets (The Regrets), sonnet XXXI, 1558 Verified quote Read its story
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