I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHOMere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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 moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
SAPPHO