Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
SAPPHOBeauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
More Sappho Quotes
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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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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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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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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What cannot be said will be wept.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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