“You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.” — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It’s Ovid. The most acceptable gifts . . . are the ones made precious by our love of the giver.” — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“For God’s sake, man,” Ovid nearly shouted, “the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it." (continuing) "But when he… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Acceptissima semper, munera sunt, auctor quae pretiosa facit.” Mr. Rossi turned to Ernie for a translation. “It’s Ovid. The most acceptable gifts . . .… — Lydia Kang Copy Share Image
“All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Oh, is that right? You know, a lioness will protect her cub by baring her teeth, by roaring, using her claws to… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Oh, Narcissus! My heart beats ink for you. A pulse in every line. It's your eyes my words want to be read… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“At some point in the evening Dellarobia had stopped being amazed that Ovid had turned into someone new, and understood he had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Not to waste the spring I threw down everything, And ran into the open world To sing what I could sing... To… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In trying to find out what Bruno thought of his priesthood, we now have a serious problem which we did not have… — John Bossy Copy Share Image
“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains… — David Wishart Copy Share Image
“I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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