Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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 shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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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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