Ovid - Poetry Quotes

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I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.

Ovid

Of its own accord my song would come in the right rhythms, and what I was trying to say was poetry.

Ovid

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

Ovid