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Sometimes, poems that are
really love poems are in a way

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hate poems.

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And the poet who did this
most memorably is, I suppose,

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Catullus.

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"Odi et amo," I love and I hate.

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If you ask me why, I don't know.

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But I feel it and I'm
tormented, said Catullus.

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And you can probably think
of a lot of love poems

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that are also hate
poems in a way.

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Here are a couple of rather
free translations from Catullus.

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You know the Catullus
poem that goes

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Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere
malle / quam mihi, non si se

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Iuppiter ipse petat / dicit:
sed mulier cupido quod

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dicit amanti, / in vento et
rapida scribere oportet aqua.

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Which you might
translate, my girl

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says she'd take no
one else as a lover.

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No one else, she says.

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Even if Jupiter
were to coax, says.

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But what a girl says
to her vehement lover,

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write on the giddy wind.

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Write on the stream as it flows.

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This is one of his
love-hate poems.