What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHOI took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
More Sappho Quotes
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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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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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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