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Peire Rogier Quotes

1145–1180 France

Peire Rogier (born c. 1145; fl. 1160 – 1180) was a twelfth-century Auvergnat troubadour and cathedral canon from Clermont.

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My heart is so fixed on joy
that I cannot help but sing,
for as a child and an adult, joy has nourished me.
Without it, I’d be nothing.
I see that everything else that people do
degrades, dishonors, and defames
if love and joy do not sustain it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peire Rogier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.