193 Quotes by Sappho

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away