Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHOBuilders, 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!
More Sappho Quotes
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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