Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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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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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
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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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For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
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