The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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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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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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