Quotes About Canticle

In his "Canticle of the Creatures," Saint Francis says, "Blessed are those whom death will find in your most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm.

The vibration of the heat was like the vibration of a sung oratorio. Only my hearing part was feeling. Closed-mouth canticle, sound vibrating deaf like something imprisoned and contained, amen, amen. Canticle of thanksgiving for the murder of one being by another being.

This almost pantheistic identification with the universe is expressed in his "Song of the Creatures," or "Canticle of the Sun," one of the greatest poems ever composed.