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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Sappho

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO

Grief Home Place Serve
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHO

Myself Strike Venom
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.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

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