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Catullus quotes: Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Catullus quotes: I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

Catullus quotes: I hate and I love Why do I, you ask ?I don't know, but it's happeningand it hurts

I hate and I love
Why do I, you ask ?
I don't know, but it's happening
and it hurts

Catullus quotes: Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.

Catullus quotes: We see not our own backs.

We see not our own backs.

Catullus quotes: Id FaciamWhat I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holdsthe nail that now is driven into itself, why.

Id Faciam
What I hate I love. Ask the crucified hand that holds
the nail that now is driven into itself, why.

Catullus quotes: I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you'll ask.
I don't know: but I feel, and I'm tormented.

Catullus quotes: What a woman tells her lover in desireshould be written out on air & running water.

What a woman tells her lover in desire
should be written out on air & running water.

Catullus quotes: I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Catullus quotes: Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Catullus quotes: 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.

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.

Catullus quotes: But you shall not escape my iambics.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Catullus quotes: I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

Catullus quotes: Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Catullus quotes: It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus quotes: I hate & love. And if you should ask how I do both,I couldn't say; but I feel it , and it shivers me.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I do both,
I couldn't say; but I feel it , and it shivers me.

Catullus quotes: The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

Catullus quotes: Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

Catullus quotes: Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Catullus quotes: I hate and I love. Wherefore do I so, peradventure thou askest. I know not, but I feel it to be thus and I suffer.

I hate and I love. Wherefore do I so, peradventure thou askest. I know not, but I feel it to be thus and I suffer.

Catullus quotes: For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Catullus quotes: My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

Catullus quotes: 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.

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.

Catullus quotes: What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Catullus quotes: There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

Catullus quotes: Ave Atque ValeHail and farewell

Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell

Catullus quotes: Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

Catullus quotes: You think I'm a sissy?I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.

You think I'm a sissy?
I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.

Catullus quotes: In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.)

In perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale. (Forever and ever, brother, hail and farewell.)

Catullus quotes: Hail and farewell

Hail and farewell

Catullus quotes: Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

Catullus quotes: I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured.

I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured.

Catullus quotes: Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.