Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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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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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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