Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain _x000D_ shaking ancient oaks.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the overwhelming and transformative power of love.
In this quote, Sappho illustrates love as a force that deeply affects the essence of a person, akin to how powerful winds can uproot ancient trees. Love, represented by Eros, transforms and stirs the soul, suggesting its potency and the emotional upheaval it can cause.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to describe the transformative power of love.
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.
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
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.
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
You were made to be kissed, often and well.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?
Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
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