“If you would be loved, be lovable”

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.But since, o gods, you were the source of thesebodies becoming other bodies, breatheyour breath into my book of changes: maythe song I sing be seamless as its wayweaves from the world's beginning to our day.”

“Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.”

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”

“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. ”

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”