Quotes of Sappho - somelinesforyou

“ yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just ”

- Sappho

“ You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars. ”

- Sappho

“ their heart grew cold they let their wings down ”

- Sappho

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

- Sappho

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

- Sappho

“ ]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women as sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured out and roses bloom and frail chervil and flowering sweetclover. But she goes back and forth remembering gentle Atthis and in longing she bites her tender mind ”

- Sappho

“ ]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray ”

- Sappho

“ What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. ”

- Sappho

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

- Sappho

“ From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious. ”

- Sappho

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

- Sappho

“ Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. ”

- Sappho

“ Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ”

- Sappho

“ Although they areonly breath, wordswhich I commandare immortal. ”

- Sappho

“ 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

“ 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

“ With his venomirresistibleand bittersweetthat loosenerof limbs, Lovereptile-likestrikes me down. ”

- Sappho

“ Although they areonly breath, wordswhich I commandare immortal. ”

- Sappho

“ What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. ”

- Sappho

“ Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ”

- Sappho

“ Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. ”

- Sappho

“ Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. ”

- Sappho

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

- Sappho

“ Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ”

- Sappho

“ The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. ”

- Sappho

“ 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

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

- Sappho

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

- Sappho

“ Love-bittersweet, irrepressible-loosen my limbs and I tremble. ”

- Sappho

“ 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
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