Roman Poetry Quotes

#1. Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

Quintus Ennius

#2. I like the posture, but not the yoga.
I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.

Roman Payne

#3. Learning is never a bad thing. And neither is changing your mind about things ... It's always good to reevaluate. To think and consider all sides.

Miranda Kenneally

#4. For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. What do we want to be prefects for?" said George, looking revolted at the very idea. "It'd take all the fun out of life.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost.

Ken Ludwig

#7. The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

Roman Jakobson

#8. You're Times New Roman, but I'm more Comic Sans.

Kestral M. Gaian

#9. The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

Roman Jakobson

#10. All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.

Julianne Moore

#11. Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.

Horace, Roman Poet
Ode I-6, 23 BCE

Vivian Swift

#12. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

Procopius Of Caesarea

#13. He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.

Mira Bartok

#14. We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another.

Roman Payne

#15. I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...

Roman Payne

#16. That's how you can tell that you're filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#17. Zane ran his thumb over Ty's cheek, seeing him suddenly with new eyes. Ty had never tried to be something he wasn't. He'd never tried to hide what he was. Warrior. Weapon. Bad guy. Zane knew what he was. The pain and betrayal faded. The world faded.

Abigail Roux

#18. Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

Matt Smith

#19. If we can't be ourselves, why even be?

Scott Hildreth

#20. Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

Cher

#21. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

Roman Payne

#22. Reaching a maximum depth of more than 1,900 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and among the deepest in the world.

Cheryl Strayed

#23. You nasty, you nasty. You
mama said you nasty!

Victoria Scott

#24. With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Roman Payne

#25. I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

Red Auerbach

#26. I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

Catullus

#27. We made love outdoors
Without a roof, I like most,
Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew.

Roman Payne

#28. Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.

Roman Payne