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
inspirational life positive
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
two crowds
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
funny buying buying-something
A woman is always buying something.
keeping-promises broken-promises kept-promises
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
worry anxiety pleasure
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
sorrow one-day bears
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
life wish able
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
life falling-in-love men
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
inspiration holy rapture
The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
beauty fragile
Beauty is a fragile gift.
men fire may
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
giving poet poor
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
relaxation periods endure
What is without periods of rest will not endure.