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

Sappho

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
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
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
SAPPHO

Heart Love Shake Warning
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
SAPPHO

Fall Love Mountain Nature
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
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Agreement Death Evil God
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
What cannot be said will be wept.
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Anand Thakur
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
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Myself Strike Venom
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

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

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