Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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
19 August
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)


