There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

- Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

- Sappho

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

- Sappho

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

- Sappho

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

- Sappho

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

- Sappho

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

- Sappho

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

- Sappho

May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

- Sappho