Sappho Quotes
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In gold sandals dawn like a thief fell upon me.
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Love shook my heart Like the wind on the mountain Troubling the oak-trees
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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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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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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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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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.
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
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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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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile – like strikes me down.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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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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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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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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I know not what to do, my mind is divided
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.