Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“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 May

Collen
(7th cent.)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Eugène de Mazenod
(1782–1861)
Bishop, Founder, Priest
Franz Jägerstätter
(1907–1943)
Layperson, Martyr
Godric
(c. 1069–1170)
Hermit, Pilgrim

Escrivim en fragments, com els cubistes, fem grans taques que necessiten del tot i la llunyana per aconseguir profunditat, com els impressionistes, narrem llarguíssimes sagues, com els frescos històrics als murals dels grans palaus…I, tanmateix, seguim envejant la mirada del pintor: voldríem descobrir l'indret on les paraules podrien tenir color i les formes, veu.

(We write in fragments, like the cubists, we made large stains that require distance in order to gain depth, like the impressionists, we recount long sagas, like the historic frescoes on the walls of great palaces…And, nevertheless we continue to envy the artist’s eye: we would like to discover the interior, where words can have colour and forms, voice.)

Montserrat Roig (1946–1991)

Catalán writer and journalist

La veu melodiosa (1987)

The Melodious Voice (1987)