The first "to desire and burn" in his verses was Sappho, from the Greek island of Lesbosbetween the 7th and 6th centuries BC. "Eros stirs my heart / like the wind that lashes the oaks in the mountains," says one of the fragments that have come down to us according to the latest Catalan translation, signed by Eloi Creus (Proa, 2022). Two centuries later, in Song of SongsIn this love poem, a foundational piece of mystical literature, two lovers converse about the pleasure of loving each other, sparing no detail of remarkable sensuality: "How delicious are your caresses, / my sister, my wife! / Your caresses are sweeter than wine."