Ovid — "Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its fo…"
Believe me, nothing perishes in all the world; it does but vary and renew its form. What we call birth is but a beginning to be other than what one was before; and death is but a cessation of a former state.
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Roman poet whose Metamorphoses (8 CE) is the longest surviving Latin poem and Western literature's main pagan-mythology source.
Closely associated with
Virgil (the Aeneid poet and other Augustan poetic giant) and Horace (third Augustan-era major poet).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Augustus, Roman emperor (27 BCE – 14 CE) — Augustus exiled Ovid to Tomis on the Black Sea in 8 CE, reasons tied to his erotic poetry (Ars Amatoria) and possible knowledge of imperial-family scandal — Augustus represented Roman moral-restoration politics that Ovid's witty erotic verse was structurally against.