Sappho on root
Sappho49 quotes“Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.”
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SapphoSappho Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SapphoSappho Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SapphoSappho With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SapphoSappho He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SapphoSappho 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.
SapphoSappho How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SapphoSappho Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SapphoSappho Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SapphoSappho Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SapphoSappho The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SapphoSappho 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!
SapphoSappho Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SapphoSappho The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SapphoSappho From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SapphoSappho I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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More on root
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Though leaves are many, the root is one.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott There is nothing more divine than the way you root into your soul and grow far beyond what tries to contain you.
Isabel RocioIsabel Rocio Woman is the root of all evil.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome How beautiful you bloom when you nurture your roots.
Gemma TroyGemma Troy