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.
love giving-up long
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
love aqua air
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.]
We see not our own backs.
air lovers fit
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
writing youth access
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
age ill
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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.