“frequently for those I treat well are the ones who most of all harm me”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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Famous Sappho Quotes
“but me you have forgotten or you love some man more than me”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Source: Fragments
Source: Sappho: The Greek Poems
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Sappho
“The people I most strive to please Do me the worst injuries...”
Source: Sappho
“but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“What was my mad heart dreaming of?”
Source: Come Close
“You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.”
“Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me.”
Source: Come Close
Source: Sappho
“…You are, I think, an evening star, of all the stars, the fairest…”
Source: Fragments
“their heart grew cold they let their wings down”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….”
“]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“] ]you will remember ]for we in our youth did these things yes many and beautiful things ] ] ]”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“gathering flowers so very delicate a girl”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me - sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“neither for me honey nor the honey bee”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“I tell her I sing roses too, / My hands in the dirt where she lives forever”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Source: Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
“and on a soft bed delicate you would let loose your longing”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“I asked myself What, Sappho, can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?”
Source: Come Close
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“We shall enjoy it As for him who finds fault, may silliness and sorrow take him!”
Source: Sappho
“Suddenly Dawn in gold sandals”
Source: The Complete Poems of Sappho
“When anger is flooding through your chest best to quiet your reckless barking tongue”
“My pain drips May winds and sorrows carry off him who blames me”
“Now in my heart I see clearly a beautiful face shining back on me, stained with love”
“When their souls grew cold they dropped their wings to their sides”