Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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