Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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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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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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