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