Sappho Quotes

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

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

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.

What cannot be said will be wept.

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

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

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

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

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

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

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

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

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

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

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.