Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHOFor some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
More Sappho Quotes
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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