“Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.”

“Darkness makes any woman fair.”

“or that writing a poem you can read to no oneis like dancing in the dark.”

“Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.”

“Every lover is a soldier.”

“I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.”

“O gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in living, I offend the living, Offend the dead in death, drive me away \ From either realm, change me somehow, refuse me \ Both life and death! -- Myrrha, before being transformed into a tree”