From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO
Related Topics
Shook
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
More Sappho Quotes
-
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO -
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO -
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO -
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO -
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO -
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
SAPPHO -
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO -
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO -
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO -
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO -
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHO -
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO -
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO -
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO -
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO -
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO