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No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
Sappho
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.
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Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
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He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
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Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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The moon has set, and the Pleiades it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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