“Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
In Memory of Sigmund Freud (1939), lines 111–112
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
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