“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.”

“But,...we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.”

“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.”

“Here, too, the honorable finds its dueand there are tears for passing things; here, too,things mortal touch the mind.”

“I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.”

“Arma virumque cano........."*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".__I sing the praises of a man's stuggles__”

“Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.”