Sappho Quotes

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

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

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

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

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

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

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

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

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

Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately.

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

I declareThat later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice, ' he said.

I want to tell you something but good tasteRestrains me

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

The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.