There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.


Sappho

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,

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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven ...
SAPPHO
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
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their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
SAPPHO
Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture<...
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You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.
SAPPHO
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SAPPHO
You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
SAPPHO
I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we ...
SAPPHO
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die
SAPPHO
When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a del...
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
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The evening star

Is the most
beautiful
of all stars
SAPPHO
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We shall enjoy it

As for him who finds
fault, may silliness
and sorrow take him...
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly
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...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has ...
SAPPHO
In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia

because I prayed
this word:
SAPPHO