What cannot be said will be wept.
SAPPHOSome 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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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 took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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