Ovid
Ovid
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. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
intuition reason instinct
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
blind reason impulse
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
passion reason
What is reason now was passion heretofore.
passion way reason
Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.