193 Quotes by Sappho

If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.