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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

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

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

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

We see not our own backs.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

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.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

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

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell

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

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

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

Hail and farewell

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

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.

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