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Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. Jules Feiffer		Tuesday May 05, 2026
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About Gaius Valerius Catullus

	Gaius Valerius Catullus
	(c. 84-54 BC) Written in the time of Julius Cæsar - Roman lyric poet. He was one of the greatest in Romes literary history.

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Let him love to-morrow who never loved before; and he as well who has loved, let him love to-morrow. Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

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.

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony.

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

He seems to me to be equal to a god. Ille mi par esse deo videtur

To Cicero Most eloquent of the descendants of Romulus. Disertissime Romuli nepotum

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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