Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHOYou may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
More Sappho Quotes
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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!
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO