Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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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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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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