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
Ovid quotes about
prone
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
trifles
Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]
melancholy solitary ifs
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
short-love love-is care
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
famous-love fighting love-is
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.