I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUSNow Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
More Catullus Quotes
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My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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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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There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
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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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My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
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Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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