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
beauty dark judgment wine
Judgment of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark
heart wine too-much
Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.
beauty wine dark
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
wine mind care
Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.
wine apples giving
Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?
art lying wine
The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.
wine eye blood
It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies.
wine passion men
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
wine wings worry
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
sleep wine insomnia
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
night ugly woman
At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman
borne
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
whether women
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
believe
He who can believe himself well, will be well.