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
reality vision synthesis
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
sleep doe
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.
giving victory opponents
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
sky may prosperity
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
decay empires command
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
desire causes intense
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
kindness mind wish
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
helping self-help dare
God himself helps those who dare.
passing-moments time-flies wave
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.
prayer half fortune
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
husband dying complaining
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
stars eye men
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
hands true-strength humans
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
art
It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem