Sappho Quotes about Love

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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

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

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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Sappho

Love, Fables, Fantasy

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

Sappho

Love, Heaven, Earth

Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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

Sappho

Love, Heart, Warning

Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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

Sappho

Love, Reptiles, Bittersweet

Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press