There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHOMay I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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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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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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