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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
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
Nocturne
Midnight. The moon
has set, and the Pleiades.
The hours pass
and pass, yet still I lie alone.
Sappho — Sherod Santos
Midnight. The moon
has set, and the Pleiades.
The hours pass
and pass, yet still I lie alone.
Sappho — Sherod Santos
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
from blunt agony. Labor
and fill my heart with fire. Stand by me
and be my ally. — 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
If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.
— Elora Bishop
I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me — Sappho Van Lesbos
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
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one — Sappho
Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.
— Odysseas Elytis
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
Always remembering what we did. To me
You have meant everything, as you well know. — 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
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
your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles -
every gesture is a proclamation,
every sound is speech ... — 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
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
— Robert Browning
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... . — Sappho
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... . — Sappho
May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve. — 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
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae,
And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die. — Sappho
And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die. — Sappho
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
— Sappho
Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho
Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me. — Sappho
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me. — Sappho
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
— Sappho
Know thyself,' said Socrates.
Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out. — Jeanette Winterson
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
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
But there's one thing still troubling me:
You don't know your way to the sea. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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
this word:
I want — Sappho