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Sappho Quotes

«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»
«Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.»
Author: Sappho | About: Love | Keywords: cunning, fables, fantasies, weaver, weavers
«What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.»
Author: Sappho | Keywords: good will
«Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.»
Author: Sappho | Keywords: endures
«Death must be an Evil - and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?»
Author: Sappho | Keywords: They Live
«When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly»
Author: Sappho | About: Anger | Keywords: barking, guard, idly, spreads
«How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away»
Author: Sappho | Keywords: limb, sweeps, sweep away
«Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die»
Author: Sappho | About: Death and dying | Keywords: judged