Anacreon Quotes
582 BC–485 BC Greece
Anacreon (582 BC – 485 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns.
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Ah, cruel 'tis to love,
And cruel not to love,
But cruelest of all
To love and love in vain.
But when an old man dances,
His locks with age are grey,
But he's a child in mind.
I fled the headless darts of slanderous tongue.
Love for lineage nothing cares,
Tramples wisdom under foot,
Worth derides, and only looks
For money.
I would not have Amalthea's horn, nor even a reign of a hundred years and fifty over all-happy Tartessus.
To-day belongs to me,
To-morrow who can tell.
E'en though I would not, die I must;
Why stray I thus through life?
Whence can we the future learn?
Life to mortals is obscure.
Cursed be he above all others
Who's enslaved by love of money.
Money takes the place of brothers,
Money takes the place of parents,
Money brings us war and slaughter.
All my care is for to-day;
What's to-morrow who can say?
And last of all comes death.
Lo now! golden-haired Love hits me with his purple ball and calls me forth to play with a motley-slippered maid, but no, she hails from grand Lesbos, and so she finds fault with my hair because it is white, and goes gaping after another.
The black earth drinks, in turn
The trees drink up the earth.
The sea the torrents drinks, the sun the sea,
And the moon drinks the sun.
Why, comrades, do ye flout me,
If I, too, wish to drink?