I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHOLove, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
More Sappho Quotes
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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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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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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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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