"I would not think to touch the sky…" — Sappho
"I would not think to touch the sky with two arms"
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29 Quotes by Sappho
Sappho has 29 quotes on this site.
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
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Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
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I know not what to do, my mind is divided
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Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
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More Arms Quotes
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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