Today's quotation is from the Lyonnaise poet Louise Labé (c 1520-1566), the first middle-class woman to publish under her own name in French (and, coincidentally, the model for the main character of my first novel). I've used this quotation as the opening epitaph for The Measure of Silence:
“Le plus grand plaisir qui soit après amour,
c’est d’en parler.”
“The greatest pleasure there is after love
is talking about it.”
—Louise Labé
Débat de Folie et d’Amour (1555)
3 comments:
Hmmm... those French; love, love, love.
What is it about love?
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