Lingua latina

È emerso chiaramente che anche giovani persone scoprono questa forma liturgica, si sentono attirate da essa e vi trovano una forma, particolarmente appropriata per loro, di incontro con il Mistero (...). L’uso del Messale antico presuppone una certa misura di formazione liturgica e un accesso alla lingua latina; sia l’una che l’altra non si trovano tanto di frequente.
Benedetto XVI, Summorum Pontificum, 2007.

The Privileged Planet

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, 1937.

SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER

"Es Tu a Primavera que eu esperava,
A vida multiplicada e brilhante
Em que é pleno e perfeito cada instante"
Sophia de Mello Breyner, Primavera, 1975.

WRITING

"It was then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing"
(Tennessee Williams, The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin, 1939)

WHEN IT ACTUALLY DOES

"You hope and you dream, but you never believe that something is going to happen to you; not as it does in the movies. And when it actually does, you expected to feel different, more visual, more real..."
(Orbital, Beached, 2001)

CARPE DIEM

"Con gli altri - anche con l'unica persona che emerge - bisogna sempre vivere come se cominciassimo allora, e finissimo un istante dopo"
(Ungaretti, Il Mestiere di Vivere, 26 II 1946)

REMEMBER...

"Something was asking to be remembered"
(Iris Murdock, Under the Net, 1954)