I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHOI do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
More Sappho Quotes
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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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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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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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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Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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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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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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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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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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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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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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