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“Hold my coat while I belt Boupalos in the eye. I am ambidextrous and never miss a punch.”

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“And I've fallen. So hard. I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen. And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching. Love is a heartless bastard.”

Book:Destroy Me

Source: Destroy Me

“If you work without being distracted, you can do so much in one hour. Something that is not even achievable in a month, especially if you are not living with a Procrasdemon – a blood curdling time-wasting machine.”

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Book:Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

Source: Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Hermes, dear Hermes, Maia's son from Kyllene, I pray to you, for I'm frozen and I shiver. Give Hipponax a woolen overcoat, a Persian cape, some sandals and felt slippers, and sixty gold staters for his inner wall. Give Hipponax a woolen overcoat. I tell you, his teeth are rattling in his head! But from you never even a shabby coat against the very cold or slippers to keep my toes from freezing.”

Willis Barnstone Hermes Hipponax

Author:Hipponax

“Never yet has the blind god, Wealth, come to my house and said 'Hipponax, I'm giving you thirty silver minas and much more.' No, he's far too tight.”

Willis Barnstone Hipponax

Author:Hipponax

“O Muse, sing to me of that sea-monster, Eurymedon's son, whose stomach, like a knife, fattens on all it finds. Tell of his dreadful end, and how by public order the town will stone him to death beside the sterile sea.”

Willis Barnstone Parody Hipponax

Author:Hipponax

“I will abandon my agonized soul to vice if instantly you don't send a medimnos of barley. From the flour I'll make a brew to drink as medicine against my sorrows.”

Willis Barnstone Hipponax

Author:Hipponax

“In a Lydian voice she said, 'Come quick, I will plug up your tight asshole.' And she beat my balls with a branch as though I were a scapegoat. I tripped, and stuck on the gallows I suffered a double torture: a branch lashed my chest; someone wet me with cowshit and my ass stank. Beetles came, drawn by the stinking gook like summer flies. They fell on me, shoved, filing their teeth on my bones. The invasion complete, I ached more than a Pygelian plague.”

Willis Barnstone Hipponax

Author:Hipponax

“On easy wings I glide to Olympos where I seek my master Eros, but he no longer lets me run down warm women as in my doghood days: he sees my graying beard and passes me by, while I stand transfixed in the wind made by his wings of quivering gold.”

Willis Barnstone Eros Anakreon

Author:Anakreon

“Eros, the blind god of lovers, strikes me with a purple ball and asks me to play with a woman wearing colorful sandals, but she is from beautiful Lesbos, and scorns my white hair, and turning her back runs gaping behind another woman.”

Willis Barnstone Anakreon

Author:Anakreon

“My Thracian foal, why do you glare with disdain and then shun me absolutely as if I knew nothing of this art? I tell you I could bridle you with tight straps, seize the reins and gallop you around the posts of the pleasant course. But you prefer to graze on the calm meadow, or frisk and gambol gayly—having no manly rider to break you in.”

Willis Barnstone Anakreon

Author:Anakreon