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.
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
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