How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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 – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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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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Builders, 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!
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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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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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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