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
life god-life gift-from-god
This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.
life stealing
Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
life giving-up bows
If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.
life love-is
Love is a credulous thing.
life together majesty
Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.
life safe reign
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.
life love-is anxious
Love is a thing full of anxious fears.
love life fall
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
life herbs can-not
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
life-changing inspiration desire
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
life want lovable
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
adventure succeed life-adventure
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
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.
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.