From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHOI will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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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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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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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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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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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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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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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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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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