Sappho Quotes

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I loved you once long ago, Athis... you seemed to me a small, ungainly child.

Sappho
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

Sappho
Stars near the lovely moon cover their own bright faces when she is roundest and lights up the earth with her silver.

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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

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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.

Sappho
The nightingale is the harbinger of Spring and her voice is desire.

Sappho
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

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With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

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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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Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and
softly laughing.

Sappho
Art thou the topmost apple
The gatherers could not reach,
Reddening on the bough?
Shall I not take thee?

Sappho
Some say an army of cavalry or of infantry or a fleet of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is whatever one loves.

Sappho
Hesperus, you herd homeward whatever Dawn's light dispersed: you herd sheep—herd goats — herd children home to their mothers.

Sappho
Although they are
Only breath, words
which I command
are immortal.

Sappho
Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne.

Sappho
Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Sappho
Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite.

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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

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The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

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As an apple reddens on the high bough; high atop the highest bough the apple pickers passed it by— no, not passed it by, but they could not reach it.

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

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

Sappho
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

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The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.

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