19 Quotes by Anakreon

Eros, the blacksmith of love,smashed me with a giant hammerand doused me in the cold river.

Lord! I clamber up the white cliffand dive into the steaming wave,O dead drunk with love.

O sweet boy like a girl,I see you though you will not look my way.You are unaware that you handle the reinsof my soul.

I do not like a man who sits by his bowland sobs about the sad warsbut the rake who loves to rave about fine featsin the arts and art of love.

Come swiftlyand rub aromatic myrrh on her breasts:the hollow cave around her heart.

Here, the tomb of Timokritos, a hero in the wars.It is the coward whom Ares spares, not the brave.

The bird flashes back and forthbetween the black leaves of the laurel treesand the greenness of the olive grove.

I looked at her and took offlike a frightened cuckoo bird.

Personally,I hate those who are furtive and touchy, morosein their ways. I have learned that you, Megistes,are of the innocent, of the childlike ones.