The maxim
"Carpe diem" has currently risen to a different meaning from the
original Horace's lyric poet of the Carmina.
As a matter
of fact Horace's dialogue to the young Leuconoe is not an invitation to enjoy
blindly the life, but is better a call to live the possible happyness that the
incertainty of our life can offer to us (carpe diem: quam minimum credula postero).
In this
point of view "carpe diem" accords with the right meaning contained
in Saint Mathew's Gospel (Chapter 6, 25-31) with which Jesus invites us to live
today without the ambush for tomorrow.
So we can
say, with Novalis, that the great latin poet Horace, was the real priest-poet.
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