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
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.
military inspiration love-is
Love is a kind of military service
fear men wish
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
evil form thousand
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
stars eye men
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
military coward wish
It is the act of a coward to wish for death.