Sappho quotes:

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

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

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

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.

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

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

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

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

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

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

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

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

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

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain

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

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

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

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.

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

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

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

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

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

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

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

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

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

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

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

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

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.

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

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

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

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

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

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