Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
Sappho
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sappho
Composer
Lyric Poet
Poet
Writer
Lesvos
Psappho
Sapphus
Sapho
Delicious
Mere
Air
Hear
Words
More quotes by Sappho
Death is an evil the gods have so judged had it been good, they would die.
Sappho
Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.
Sappho
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
Sappho
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Sappho
Death must be an evil and the gods agree for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho
Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart
Sappho
I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.
Sappho
Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
Sappho
The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.
Sappho
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
Death is an ill 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
Sappho
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
Sappho
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us
Sappho
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
Sappho
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
Sappho
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
Sappho
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
Sappho
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.
Sappho
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
Sappho
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
Sappho
