Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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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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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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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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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO