Sappho Quotes

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray

We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!

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

Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time

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

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

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

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

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.

The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.

]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced.But now she is conspicuous among Lydian womenas sometimes at sunsetthe rosyfingered moonsurpasses all the stars. And her lightstretches over salt seaequally and flowerdeep fields.And the beautiful dew is poured outand roses bloom and frailchervil and flowering sweetclover.But she goes back and forth rememberinggentle Atthis and in longingshe bites her tender mind

In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want.

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

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.