I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUSThe vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
More Catullus Quotes
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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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