I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
CATULLUSFor the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
More Catullus Quotes
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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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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We see not our own backs.
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
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