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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

~ Sappho

Sappho Evil Good Goodness Shame Wisdom

Wealth without real worthinessIs no good for the neighbourhood,But their proper mixtureIs the summit of beatitude.

~ Sappho

Sappho Blessing Life Meaning Sappho Wealth Wisdom Worth

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

~ Sappho

Sappho Beauty Defeat Giving In Giving Up Imagery Poetry

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Poetry Poetry Quotes

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Desire Eros Lesbian Love Poetry Sappho

]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

~ Sappho

Sappho Beauty Imagery Poetry

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Beauty Imagery Poetry

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Beauty Compliments

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Art Grief Muse

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

~ Sappho

Sappho Kindness Nobility Philanthropy Virtue Wealth

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Greek Poetry Jealousy Love Lust Poem Poetry

Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time

~ Sappho

Sappho Poetry Quotes

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

~ Sappho

Sappho Astronomy Evening Star Stars

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Enjoyment Rising Above Silliness Sorrow

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Child Evening Gather Kid Lamb

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

~ Sappho

Sappho Love Mythology

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

Sappho Flower Flowers Rose
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