Catullus
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catulluswas a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art...
hate i-hate
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
hate and-love feels
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
hate love-you agony
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
love hate hatred
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
love hate two
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.
favors gracious fury
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
writing youth access
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
running women writing
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
running writing air
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
religious hands people
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.
thank-you gratitude grateful
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
silly laughing
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
loving-you mind matter
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.
wine water destruction
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!