"There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse."
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"I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument."
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"The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars"
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"From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious."
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"No honey for me, if it comes with a bee."
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"Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough."
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"Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery"
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"Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks."
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"Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?"
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"Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died."
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"He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also."
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"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."
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"Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks."
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"Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble."
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"To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot."
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"How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away"
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"Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass."
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"Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart"
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"Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered."
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"Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor."
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