What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
"Gaius Valerius Catullus" was a Latin poetry/Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry. Poetry of Catullus/His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.
Catullus's poems were widely appreciated by other poets. He greatly influenced poets such as Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. After his rediscovery in the late Middle Ages, Catullus again found admirers. His explicit writing style has shocked many readers. Indeed, Catullus was never considered one of the canonical school authors, although his body of work is still frequently read from secondary school to graduate programs across the world.
More Catullus on Wikipedia.Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song.
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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.
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.
Rise up, lads, the evening is coming. The evening star is just raising his long-awaited light in heaven.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.
Now he is treading that dark road to the place from which they say no one has ever returned.
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