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To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot. — Sappho

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. — Sappho

Do you prefer him or her? Either one's cool-I'm genderfluid. — Mvxx. Amillivn

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal. — Sappho

And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face. — Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept. — Sappho

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho

In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want. — Sappho

Love shook my heart like a wind falling on oaks
on a mountain. — Sappho

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. — Sappho

Nocturne

Midnight. The moon
has set, and the Pleiades.
The hours pass
and pass, yet still I lie alone.

Sappho — Sherod Santos

]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things
]
]
] — Sappho

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

Come to me now and loosen me
from blunt agony. Labor
and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me
and be my ally. — Sappho

I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are. — Sappho

It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop writing even if I wanted to. — Elora Bishop

When they were tired
Night rained her
thick dark sleep
upon their eyes. — Sappho

If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on. — Elora Bishop

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

I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me — Sappho Van Lesbos

but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one — Sappho

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart — Sappho

When you take advice from a cat, there are always consequences. — Elora Bishop

Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away — Sappho

Love shook my heart
Like the wind on the mountain
rushing over the oak trees. — Sappho

For me, neither the honey nor the bee — Sappho

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

neither for me honey nor the honey bee — Sappho

I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go
Always remembering what we did. To me
You have meant everything, as you well know. — Sappho

gathering flowers so very delicate a girl — Sappho

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone. — Sappho

Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time — Sappho

Evening you gather back
all that dazzling dawn has put asunder:
you gather a lamb, gather a kid,
gather a child to its mother. — Sappho

The touched heart madly stirs,
your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles -
every gesture is a proclamation,
every sound is speech ... — Sappho

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

[I was dreaming of you but]
just then
Dawn, in her golden sandals
[woke me] — Sappho

The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view;
The good man will in time be gorgeous, too. — Sappho

Although only breath, words which I speak are immortal. — Sappho

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

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. — Plato

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever? — Sappho

Gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly ... — Sappho

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho

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

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered. — Sappho

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning

for you beautiful ones my thought
is not changeable — Sappho

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... . — Sappho

In the crooks of your body, I find my religon. — Sappho

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms — Sappho

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us. — Sappho

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

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

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. — Sappho

George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality. — George Meredith

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia

We shall enjoy it
As for him who finds
fault, may silliness
and sorrow take him! — Sappho

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. — Sappho

You may
blame Aphrodite
soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy — Sappho

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. — Sappho

I know not what to do, my mind is divided — Sappho

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me. — Sappho

I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. Kle — Sappho

If you are squeamish
Don't prod the
beach rubble. — Sappho

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars — Sappho

Stand to face me beloved
And open out the grace of your eyes — Sappho

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

And
Her soul! Her soul is consumed by this longing. — Sappho

Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down — Sappho

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae,
And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die. — Sappho

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

Whatever one loves most is beautiful. — Sappho

May you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend — Sappho

You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire. — Sappho

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

You came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing — Sappho

I do not know what to do, my mind's in two. — Sappho

Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me. — Sappho

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also. — Sappho

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear. — Sappho

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

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

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down — Sappho

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho

Know thyself,' said Socrates.
Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out. — Jeanette Winterson

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom. — Nick Cave

...but I say whatever / one loves, is — Sappho

The moon has set
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
I lie in bed alone. — Sappho

Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar
Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass. — Sappho

You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed.
But there's one thing still troubling me:
You don't know your way to the sea. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray — Sappho

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

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. — Cesare Pavese

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be. — Sappho

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

The dice of love are shouting and madness. — Sappho

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

Because I prayed
this word:
I want — Sappho