Quotes by Sappho

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

“The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.”

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

“The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.”

“O dream on your black wings”

“A handsome man guards his image a while;”

“Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go?”

“I am gone and never come back to you. I never return.[1] Fragment 114 Voigt”

“Of course I am downcast and tremble”

“Some say cavalry and others claim”

“If you are my friend, stand up before me”

“To have beauty is to have only that,”

“When wrath runs rampage”

“Shimmering,iridescent,deathless Aphrodite,child of Zeus, weaver of wiles,I beg you,do not crush my spirit with anguish, Lady,but come to me now...”

“Truly, I wish I were dead.She was weeping when she left me,and said many things to me, and said this:How much we have suffered, Sappho.Truly, I don't want to leave you.”

“Look at him, just like a god,that man sitting across from you,whoever he is,listening to yourclose, sweet voice,your irresistible laughterAnd O yes,it sets my heart racing—one glance at youand I ca...”

“Eros has shaken my mind,wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks”

“Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch,the topmost apple on the tip of the branch,and the pickers forgot it,well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it.”

“The moon has set,And the Pleiades.Midnight.The hour has gone by.I sleep alone.”

“Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. They give us a taste of her way of writing, which is perfectly conformable with that extra...”