The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHOThe evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
More Sappho Quotes
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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