Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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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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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO