With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
SAPPHOThere is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
More Sappho Quotes
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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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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
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What cannot be said will be wept.
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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.
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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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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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In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
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