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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Sappho

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Fair Goodness Himself
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Love Myself Tremble
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Fall Love Mountain Nature
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Anand Thakur
What cannot be said will be wept.
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Anand Thakur
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Fantasy Love One Liner
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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Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
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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Anand Thakur
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Alone Moon Night Pass Time
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Nature Yourself

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

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