Sappho famous quotes

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

#Immortal #Command

What cannot be said will be wept.
-- Sappho

#Said

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 beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.
-- Sappho

#Love #Crush #Fall

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

#Anger #Tongue #Spread

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

#Done #Bittersweet #Limbs

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

#Grief #House #Muse

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

#Sensual #Bittersweet #Limbs

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

#Beautiful #Long #Today

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

#Remember

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

#Writing #Stronger #Nerves

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

#Responsibility #Wealth #Virtue

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.
-- Sappho

#Army #Black #Earth

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

#Thinking #May #Forget

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

#Beautiful #Stars #Evening

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

#Two #Mind

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
-- Sappho

#Beautiful #One Love

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

#Men #Beam #Roof

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

#Beach #Rubble

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

#Famous Love #Eye #Grace

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
-- Sappho

#Spring #Flower #Earth

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

#Lying #Muse #Poet

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

#Evil #Immortality #Agree

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

#Mind

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

#Thinking #Two #Sky

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

#Long Distance Relationship #Believe #Night

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

#Love Is #Fables #Fantasy

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

#Sleep #Moon #Midnight

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

#Evil #Judged

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 statelier, Hear the wedding song!
-- Sappho

#Song #Sky #Mars

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
-- Sappho

#Heart #Wind #Tree

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

#Morning #Stars #Together

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

#Beauty #Looks #Goodness

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

#Death #Boon #Ill

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

#Stars #Moon #Light

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

#Heart #Mountain #Uprooting

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

#Gold #Dawn #Thieves

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

#Love #Reptiles #Bittersweet

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

#Love #Heart #Warning

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

#Love #Heaven #Earth

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

#Queens #Flower #Rose

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

#Water #Flow #Body

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
-- Sappho

#Lying #Night #Moon

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

#Wind #Soul #Mountain

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 by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
-- Sappho

#Lying #Moon #Sky

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

#Dance #Moon #Dancing

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

#Bees #Honey #Caution

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
-- Sappho

#Lying #Moon #Night

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

#Air

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
-- Sappho

#Limbs