Monday, November 2, 2009

Daily Dose

From Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing, by Robert Graves

HORACE VS. CATULLUS

"Horace is my idea of a characteristically obscene man. An immoderate liking for his poems is, I believe, a sure proof of obscenity in a person. Catullus, on the other hand, was not obscene: he had greater self-respect."

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