Ovid Poetry
Ovid Quotes
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.
Born: March 20, 43 B.C., Sulmona, Italy
Died: Constanta, Romania
Full Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
Born: March 20, 43 B.C., Sulmona, Italy
Died: Constanta, Romania
Full Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
One should learn even from one's enemies.
Fas est ab hoste doceri.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Everything changes, nothing perishes.
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”
― Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
― Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
God himself helps those who dare.
Every lover is a soldier.
Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Love is a kind of warfare.
Habits change into character.
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
It is the mind that makes the man.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side …
And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home,
Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds …
Then Man was born:…
though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.
And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home,
Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds …
Then Man was born:…
though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.
Publius Ovidius Naso, renowned by his pen name Ovid was a Roman poet. He is counted among the most influential poets in Latin literature.
He was born in 43 BC and worked as a poet of great influence under the rule of Roman Emperor Augustus.
Ovid was sent into exile by the Emperor Augustus to the Black Sea and although the reasons might not be known, the poet had himself said that it was due to ‘a poem and a mistake.’
He is most famous for his seminal work ‘Metamorphoses’, a book on mythology that was collected in a total of 15 books and is considered to be one of the most important works of literature in the Latin language. In addition to that, Ovid had also written two hugely popular poems on love, titled ‘Amores’ and ‘Ars Amatoria’, which further enhanced his status as perhaps the greatest Latin poet to have ever lived.
He was born in 43 BC and worked as a poet of great influence under the rule of Roman Emperor Augustus.
Ovid was sent into exile by the Emperor Augustus to the Black Sea and although the reasons might not be known, the poet had himself said that it was due to ‘a poem and a mistake.’
He is most famous for his seminal work ‘Metamorphoses’, a book on mythology that was collected in a total of 15 books and is considered to be one of the most important works of literature in the Latin language. In addition to that, Ovid had also written two hugely popular poems on love, titled ‘Amores’ and ‘Ars Amatoria’, which further enhanced his status as perhaps the greatest Latin poet to have ever lived.
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