Quotes About Beauty

And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields.

A deed your lovely face if not, winter and no pain I bid you, Abanthis, take up the lyre and sing of Gongyla as again desire floats around you the beautiful. When you saw her dress it excited you. I'm happy. The Kypros-born once blamed me for praying this word: I want

the rose-fingered moon exeeds all stars

He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.

And with precious and royal perfume you anointed yourself.

bind your hair with lovely crowns, tying stems of anise together in your soft hands. For the blesses Graces prefer to look on one who wears flowers and turn away from those without a crown.

What farm girl dolled up in a farm dress captivates your wits not knowing how to pull her rags down to her ankles?

I would rather see her lovely step and the motion of light on her face than chariots of Lydians or ranks of footsoldiers in arms.

reminding me now of Anaktoria gone. I would rather see her lovely step and the radiant sparkle of her face than all the war chariots in Lydia

Kritan women once danced supplely around a beautiful altar with light feet, crushing the soft flowers of grass.

A handsome man is good to look at, but a good man will be handsome as well.

By giving good fame your beauty and nobility to such friends you sicken me with pain Blame you? Swollen Have your fill of them For my thinking it is poorly done and all night I understand baseness Other minds the blessed

I hoped for love When I look at you face to face not even Hermioni seems to be your equal. I compare you to blond Helen among mortal women. Know that you can free me from every care, and stay awake all night long on dewy riverbanks

The moon has set and the Pleiades. Middle of the night, time spins away and I lie alone.

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

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

en güzeli. bütün y?ld?zlar?n.

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

I bid you sing … as (now again) longing floats around you, you beauty.

Some call ships, infantry, or horsemen The greatest beauty earth can offer; I say it is whatever a person Most lusts after.

Andromeda in a beautiful exchange, 'Psapfo, why ignore Afroditi rich in blessings?

It is not right in a house serving the Muses to have mourning. For us it is unbecoming.

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

You will remember we did these things in our youth many and beautiful things. In the city for us the harsh We live opposite a daring person stone foundation thin-voiced