"Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi; Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam."
— Ars Amatoria

January 1, 1970

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I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry. — Book II, lines 165–166 (tr. J. Lewis May)