193 Quotes by Sappho

Age weighs heavily on me, and the kneesBuckle that long ago, like fawns, pranced nimbly.I groan much but to what end? Humans simplyCannot be ageless like divinities.They say that rosy-forearmed Dawn, when stungWith love, swept a sweet youth to the earth's rim -Tithonus. Even there age withered him,Bound still to a wife forever young.

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...

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)

My delight is the exquisite. Yes, for me,Glitter and sunlight and loveAre one society. So I shall not go creeping awayTo die in the dark:I shall go on living with you,Loving and loved.

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

Some call ships, infantry or horsemenThe greatest beauty earth can offer;I say it is whatever a personMost lusts after.

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.

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.

As you are dear to me, go claim a youngerBed as your due.I can't stand being the old one any longer,Living with you.