Mother Nature gave bulls horns and gave horses hooves for speed; she gave lions a huge mouth, and filled it with long, mean teeth; she taught fish to swim and gave birds the wide, high sky. To man she gave wisdom. And to women? What was left? To woman she offered a beauty that is both a sword and a shield, to woman a beauty equal to fire or steel.
Anakreon
from The Infinite Moment: Poems from Ancient Greek translated by Sam Hamill















