When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHOWithout warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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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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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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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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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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