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
sweet water pleasure
In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
water stones dripping-water
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
water stones dropping
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
rocks water stones
What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
love flames water
If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.
practice water use
By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.
moving water sloth
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
water small-pleasures pure
There is no small pleasure in pure water.
water stones dripping
Dripping water hollows out a stone
swimming water hook
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.
motivational rocks water
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
life-changing persistence water
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.