Emotion versus theological reason

You are wrong when you ascribe to some of my songs the inspiration of a mystic. I was a human girl. Simply that. I never knew real Love, I often dreamed of it and I suffered for that, in my heart, like any such as I at the same age.

Source: Letter to Sister Marie Henry CSJ cited by Escholier, [n.d.], ESCHOLIER Raymond, Marie Noël. La Neige qui brûle [1957], Paris-Auxerre, Association Marie Noël-Société des Sciences historiques et naturelles de l'Yonne, 2010, p. 148.