Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Ovid
Ovid -
Poetry
Quotes
3 Sourced Quotes
View all Ovid Quotes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
Of its own accord my song would come in the right rhythms, and what I was trying to say was poetry.
Ovid
Source
Report...
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
Ovid
Quote of the day
What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
Elizabeth Bishop
Ovid
Creative Commons
Born:
March 20, 43 BC
Died:
17 AD
(aged 60)
More about Ovid...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
