Quotes from Ovid

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (To live well is to live concealed.)

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.

Someday this pain will be useful to you

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.

My vengeance is my guilt

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. And he sets his mind to unknown arts.

My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit

You will go most safely by the middle way.

She made up prayers and said them, Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing, Her customary magic, which would cover The white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Even as a cow she was lovely.