Occupation: Lyric Poet Birth: 625 Bc Death: 571 Bc
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve..
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious..
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done..
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright..
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse..
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear..
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 ….
What cannot be said will be wept..
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow..
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
Whatever one loves most is beautiful..
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables..
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly..
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee..
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal..
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long..
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes..
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms.
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble..