Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
motivational fire deities
There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.
yield dating romance
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
love latin concealed
Love, and a cough, are not concealed.
love yield safe
You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
guilt lays
Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
dance voice dancing
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
love light burden
The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
strong sleep heart
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!
past two design
Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.
eye men space
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
thinking hands age
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
years taught prison
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
ocean sea ships
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.
habit pursuit
Pursuits become habits.