Ovid Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
  By his own talents he worked his undoing.
  Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
  Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

  Ovid

  Love, Sports, Lying

• Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
  Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

  Ovid

  Long, Rust, Talent

• Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

  Ovid

  Skills, Luck, Demand

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.130, Indiana University Press

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