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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.

Sappho

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

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Evening Stars
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
SAPPHO

Eyes Face Grace Love Stand
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

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

Delicious Hear Word
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.

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