Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Hildegard of Bingen
Born: 1098
Died: September 17, 1179 (aged 81)
Bio: Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B., also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
Known for:
- Scivias
- Ordo Virtutum
- Holistic healing
- The book of the rewards of life
- The letters of Hildegard of Bingen