"I would rather see her lovely step and the radiant sparkle of her face than all the chariots of Lydia."

"I have no complaint... prosperity that the golden Muses gave me was no delusion: dead, I won't be forgotten."

"And I'm an inch from dying."

"What cannot be said will be wept."

"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."