My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. - Ovid

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love."

"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas"- "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses"