Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHOAlthough only breath, words which I command are immortal.
More Sappho Quotes
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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