Sappho Quotes

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

  Sappho

  Beautiful, Long, Today

  Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart

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• Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

  Sappho

  Beautiful, One Love

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• What cannot be said will be wept.

  Sappho

  Said

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• You may forget but
  let me tell you
  this: someone in
  some future time
  will think of us

  Sappho

  Thinking, May, Forget

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

  Sappho

  Writing, Stronger, Naked

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• Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

  Sappho

  Remember, Another Time

  Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications

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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.

  Sappho

  Love, Crush, Fall

  Fragment 2

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• Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

  Sappho

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

  Sappho

  Love, Fables, Fantasy

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• Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

  Sappho

  Immortal, Command, Breaths

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

  Sappho

  Done, Bittersweet, Limbs

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• No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

  Sappho

  Honey, Bees, Caution

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• All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

  Sappho

  Long Distance Relationship, Believe, Night

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

  Sappho

  Famous Love, Eye, Grace

  Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications

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

  Sappho

  Love, Heaven, Earth

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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• Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
  shaking ancient oaks.

  Sappho

  Sexy, Wind, Soul

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• There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

  Sappho

  Grief, House, Paganism

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

  Sappho

  Spring, Flower, Earth

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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• I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

  Sappho

  Water, Body, Flow

  Sappho (2007). “The Poetry of Sappho”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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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.

  Sappho

  Army, Black, Earth

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

  Sappho

  Heart, Wind, Tree

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• When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

  Sappho

  Anger, Tongue, Spread

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• Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

  Sappho

  Fall, Wind, Mountain

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• Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

  Sappho

  Evil, Dies, Judged

  Sappho, Henry Thornton Wharton (1895). “Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation”

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• Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

  Sappho

  Sensual, Bittersweet, Limbs

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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