Saturday, July 18, 2009

Catullus

Ok, doesn't have much to do with fashion but I like it.
My favorite love poem by the Latin poet Catullus, I read it in school.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

In English it's like this
I hate and I love. Why do I do that, you might ask?
I don't know, but I feel it happening and it kills me inside.

I think its power lies in the short length, when I translated it for the first time it made me quiet.

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