Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHODeath is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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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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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO