Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHOYou may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
More Sappho Quotes
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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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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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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