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

 

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


-Catullus
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This quote is just one of 9 total Catullus quotes in our collection. Catullus is known for saying 'For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.' as well as some of the following quotes.

What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.

Catullus
247

Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Catullus
238
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so. -Catullus
216

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
176

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.

Catullus
155
Rise up, lads, the evening is coming. The evening star is just raising his long-awaited light in heaven. -Catullus
154

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

Catullus
145