If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHOStand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
More Sappho Quotes
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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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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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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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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