Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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 is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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