Sappho Quotes

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.

May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.