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
heart wine too-much
Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
girl women heart
Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.
broken-heart grief tears
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
heart sleep men
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.
heart wrath tears
Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream. [Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram: Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]
heart sick bears
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
love believe heart
A lover fears all that he believes.
heart hands mind
For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.
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!
heart feelings details
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
heart my-heart affectionate
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
heart fire sorrow
Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.
girl heart vanity
Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.
love believe heart
Love is a believing creature.