Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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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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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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