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Famous Sappho Quotes
“There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”
“I would not think to touch the sky with two arms”
Source: Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation
“You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us”
Source: Sappho
“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”
Source: Sappho
“Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees”
“I know not what to do, my mind is divided”
Source: Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings and a Literal Translation
“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us”
Source: Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho
“Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery”
Source: Lyrics in the Original Greek
“If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.”
Source: Sappho
“Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.”
“The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.”
“Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.”
Source: Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation
“How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away”
Source: The songs of Sappho: including the recent Egyptian discoveries, the poems of Erinna, Greek poems about Sappho, Ovid's epistle of Sappho to Phaon translated into rimed verse
“Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.”
Source: Lyrics in the Original Greek
“I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.”
Source: The Poetry of Sappho
“I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.”
Source: The love songs of Sappho
“The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.”
“Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.”
“Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.”
Source: Sappho