Catullus on Poetry about love

“Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. It is difficult at once to relinquish a long-cherished love.”

“Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua. What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.”

“Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio: sed fieri sentio, et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why do I do so you perhaps ask. I cannot say; but I feel it to be so, and I am tormented accordingly.”