He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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