There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHOThe 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.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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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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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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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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Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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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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The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars.
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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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