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.
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. - Sappho
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
- Sappho
What cannot be said will be wept. - Sappho
What cannot be said will be wept.
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal. - Sappho
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. - Sappho
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us - Sappho
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear. - Sappho
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow. - Sappho
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright. - Sappho
Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. - Sappho
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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