Catullus

Wrote 116 surviving poems, most of them addressed to a married woman he called Lesbia. The famous Carmen 5 — vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus — counts kisses by the thousand specifically to confuse anyone trying to count them, because in Roman folk magic naming a number gave the evil eye purchase. He is the proof that grief, lust, and meticulous prosody can occupy the same line without diminishing each other.