“His blend of sensitivity and detachment, elegance, wit, and learning, had a profound influence on later Roman poets, especially Catullus, Ovid, and Propertius (the last thought of himself as the Roman Callimachus), and through them on the whole European literary tradition.”

—  Callimachus

D. E. W. Wormell, in The Penguin Companion to Literature (1969) vol. 4, p. 47
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