Quotes from Sappho

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

frequently for those I treat well are the ones who most of all harm me

not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this

For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be

As sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields.

Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up...I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me...

I am weary of all your words and soft, strange ways.

You are, I think, an evening star, of all the stars, the fairest…

neither for me honey nor the honey bee

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me.

And Her soul! Her soul is consumed by this longing.

And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.

Like a gale smiting an oak On mountainous terrain, Eros, with a stroke, Shattered my brain.

The dice of love are shouting and madness.

Stand to face me beloved And open out the grace of your eyes

but I say whatever / one loves, is

but if you love us choose a younger bed for I cannot bear to live with you when I am the older one

but me you have forgotten or you love some man more than me

The touched heart madly stirs, your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation, every sound is speech...

I desire And I crave.

but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind

Eros shook my mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees.

The moon is set and the Pleiades; Middle of the night, time passes by, I lie alone.

I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go Always remembering what we did. To me You have meant everything, as you well know.