Une journée de bonheur

de Pascal Quignard

"Tout le monde du moins à l'occident de ce monde se souvient de ce fragment de vers que Horace a écrit dans son XIe Ode : Carpe diem. Cueille le jour. Je veux comprendre ce si beau vers mystérieux : pourquoi songer à cueillir le jour ? Ne vaudrait-il pas mieux vivre le moment qui passe, plutôt que l'arracher à l'intérieur des heures qui se suivent ?"--Page 4 of cover. Through a meditation on flowers, Pascal Quignard meditates from dawn to night - and wonderfully - on the carpe diem: should we not live the moment rather than pick it? "Everyone - at least to the west of this world - remembers the fragment of verse that Horace wrote in his 11th Ode: Carpe diem. I pluck, pluck out, pluck out the day, I want to understand this beautiful mysterious verse: Why should we think of picking the day? Would it not be better to live the moment passing rather than snatch it within the hours that follow?--Translation of page 4 of cover by Babelio http://www.babelio.com/livres/Quignard-Une-journee-de-bonheur/930388