Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
SAPPHOSomeone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
More Sappho Quotes
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Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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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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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO