In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
- Sappho
More Quotes By Sappho
- May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
- When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent,...
- 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.
- What cannot be said will be wept.
- Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
- Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
- Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.
- Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
- Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
- Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
- All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
- Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth...
- Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
- Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of...
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