Quotes from Sappho

My mother used to say in her youth it was a great ornament to wear a purple ribbon looped in her hair. But a girl with hair yellower than torch flame need wear just a wreath of blooming flowers, or lately maybe a colorful headband from Sardis or some Ionian city

O dream on black wings you stray here when sleep sweet god, I am in agony to split all its power for I expect not to share. Nothing of the blessed gods I would rather not be like this with trinkets but may I have them all

It is not easy for us to equal the goddesses in beauty of form [...] Adonis desire and Afroditi poured nectar from a gold pitcher with hands Persuasion the Geraistion shrine lovers of no one I shall enter desire

Doriha commands them not to come she is arrogant like young men who are loved

Hiç uyarmadan Kas?rga nas?l sökerse meÅŸeleri kökünden öyle sars?yor yüreÄŸimi aÅŸk

Come holy lyre speak to me and become a voice!

You lay in wait behind a laurel tree and everything was sweeter women wandering I barely heard darling soul such as I now am you came beautiful in your garments

My pain drips May winds and sorrows carry off him who blames me

For my companions, now of these things I shall sing beautifully

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

bir an bile baksam sana bo?az?mda kal?yor sesim

Kaç kez, sana ÅŸimdi gelme, dedim Hermes, ruhlar? yuvalar?na götüren k?lavuz: ama mutsuzum, ölmek, Akheron boyunda açan ?slak nilüferleri görmek istiyorum ÅŸimdi

It's like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It's the hardest thing loving someone who doesn't love you.

yak?p tüketen ateÅŸler sald?n içime - Çok yaÅŸa! yokluÄŸunda bitmek tükenmek bilmeyen saatlerce yaÅŸa!

Come to me now once again and release me from gruelling anxiety. All that my heart longs for, fulfil. And be yourself my ally in love's bayttle.

Come to me now once again and release me from gruelling anxiety. All that my heart longs for, fulfil. And be yourself my ally in love's battle.

Goatherd a rose longing sweat

When you lie dead no one will remember or long for you later. You do not share the roses of Pieria. Unseen here and in the house of Hades, flown away, you will flitter among dim corpses.

Really, if you are my friend, choose a younger bed I can't bear to live with when I am the older

Andromeda forgot but Psapfo I loved you In Kypros I am queen for you a power as sun blazes glory everywhere; even by the Aheron I am with you

Death is bad. The gods must have thought so, for it if were a good thing, they then, too, would die.

en güzeli. bütün y?ld?zlar?n.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor but by mixing both you are on the peak of joy.

Yet I love refinement and Eros has got me brightness and the beauty of the sun.