*Odi et amo.
quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio,
sed fieri sentio et excrucior*
I hate and I love.
Perhaps you ask why I do this?
I do not know,
but I feel it happen and I am torn apart.
Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 4:03 AM UTC
*Odi et amo.
quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio,
sed fieri sentio et excrucior*
I hate and I love.
Perhaps you ask why I do this?
I do not know,
but I feel it happen and I am torn apart.
Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus. It was written for his mistress, Lesbia.
The rendering of ambivalence regarding the subject of love and hate is done with a simplicity and disquieting surrender. It's almost as if the form itself speaks just as much as the content. I hate and I love. Odi et amo. That is all.
I know this feeling. I know it all too well.
