Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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 would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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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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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
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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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