When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHOThe 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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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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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 seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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