What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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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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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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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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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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