Sappho Quotes

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• All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
• Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
• Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
• There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
• I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
• Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
• Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
• Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
• I know not what to do, my mind is divided
• Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
• Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
• Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
• Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
• The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
• 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…
• Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
• 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…
• How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
• 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…
• Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

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