Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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