05-29-2014, 05:07 AM
..wrote Ovid. Was he right?
It comes from the 'Tristia'. It is translated as 'Poetry comes fine-spun from a calm mind'. He goes on to moan about his misfortune, having been exiled to, I think, Trieste, in the Empire, but away from Rome. He more or less grovels to be pardoned in the following verses, but forget that. There seem to be a few tortured souls around, and one does not need to look far in the past for more tortured souls. But do people write their best when they are not going through such a phase?
No need for well-known cutties, like Leanne, to respond: the tired, hackneyed, trite, cliché, passé, rechauffé, vieux jeu comments are already known.
(PS Not bitter at all that she has eschewed the opportunity to meet in favour of Scotland)
It comes from the 'Tristia'. It is translated as 'Poetry comes fine-spun from a calm mind'. He goes on to moan about his misfortune, having been exiled to, I think, Trieste, in the Empire, but away from Rome. He more or less grovels to be pardoned in the following verses, but forget that. There seem to be a few tortured souls around, and one does not need to look far in the past for more tortured souls. But do people write their best when they are not going through such a phase?
No need for well-known cutties, like Leanne, to respond: the tired, hackneyed, trite, cliché, passé, rechauffé, vieux jeu comments are already known.
(PS Not bitter at all that she has eschewed the opportunity to meet in favour of Scotland)