For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
We see not our own backs. - Catullus
We see not our own backs.
- Catullus
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all. - Catullus
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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
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.
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is! - Catullus
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. - Catullus
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I se… - Catullus
Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I se…
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful. - Catullus
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
But you shall not escape my iambics. - Catullus
But you shall not escape my iambics.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more. - Catullus
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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