Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc

Today’s Feast Days

21 November

Albert von Leuven
(c. 1166–1192)
Archdeacon, Bishop, Cardinal Deacon, Martyr
Gelasius I
(c. 410–496)
Pope

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one’s living so as not to be a parasite and loving one’s neighbour.

W.H. Auden (1907–1973)

Anglo-American poet

as quoted in Charles Osborne—W.H. Auden: the Life of a Poet (1979)