QUOTE : Ovid wrote Metamorphoses, in which he described the endurance of literature in the epilogue? Now I have done my work. It will endure,<br />I trust, beyond Jove’s anger, fire, and sword,<br />Beyond time’s hunger. The day will come, I know,<br />So let it come, that day which has no power<br />Save over my body, to end my span of life<br />Whatever it may be. Still, part of me,<br />The better part, immortal will be borne<br />Above the stars; …<br />I shall be read, and through all centuries,<br />If prophecies of bards are ever truthful,<br />I shall be living, always.