Sappho quotes
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“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.116, Univ of California Press
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“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.”
-- SapphoSource : Fragment 2
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“When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.”
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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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“There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”
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“Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
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“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart
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“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications
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“May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
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“Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.”
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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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“You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.58, Univ of California Press
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“The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars”
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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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“If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.”
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“Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications
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“Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
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“To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.”
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“Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?”
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“I would not think to touch the sky with two arms”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation”
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“All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.”
-- Sappho#Long Distance Relationship Quotes #Believe Quotes #Night Quotes
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“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
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“The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.”
-- SapphoSource : Fragment 94
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“Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.”
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“Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!”
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“Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees”
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“Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.”
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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 ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.”
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“Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.”
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“Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.”
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“In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.”
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“With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down”
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“Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart”
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“From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]
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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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“I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.”
-- SapphoSource : Sappho (2007). “The Poetry of Sappho”, p.16, Oxford University Press
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“The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.”
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“Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.”
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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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“Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.”
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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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