I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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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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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHO