The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHOSome 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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