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Lyric Poet Inspirational Quotes (40)

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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Simonides of Ceos
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To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
Sappho
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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
Sappho
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho
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I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
Sappho
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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
Sappho
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Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.
Ibycus
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Not even the gods fight against necessity.
Simonides of Ceos
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
Sappho
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All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
Sappho
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Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides of Ceos
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
Sappho
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The gods do not fight against necessity.
Simonides of Ceos
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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
Simonides of Ceos
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
Sappho
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
Sappho
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
Sappho
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
Sappho
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If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.
Simonides of Ceos
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Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?
Simonides of Ceos
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
Sappho
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What is life without the joy of Love?
Simonides of Ceos
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Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
Sappho
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
Sappho
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