Quote by Sappho Download Open image ““Like a gale smiting an oak On mountainous terrain, Eros, with a stroke, Shattered my brain.”” — Sappho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.” — Mark Brown Copy Share Image
“He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“And my father went back into the forest and chopped down a tree. The sound of the trunk fracturing and splintering and falling to… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped! You were hacked a hundred times until you had nothing left but spite and will! I am like you, so many insults and humiliations could not shatter my link with life. And every day I raise my head beyond countless insults towards new light. What… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
“I jumped and slid over the hood as the fire ignited the leaves of the oak tree shading above me.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women as sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured out and roses bloom… — Sappho Copy Share
“But thou shalt ever lie dead nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or ever, for thou hast none of the roses… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees — Sappho Copy Share Image
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speaks and sweetly smile. 'Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast; For, while I gazed, in transport tossed, My breath was gone, my voice was lost; My bosom glowed; the… — Sappho Copy Share
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us — Sappho Copy Share Image
“I can reveal to you that I wished to die - For with much weeping she left me Saying: "Sappho - what suffering is ours! For it is against my will that I leave you." In answer, I said: "Go, happily remembering me For you know what we shared and pursued - If not, I wish you to see again… — Sappho Copy Share
“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not… — Sappho Copy Share Image
