Sappho Quotes

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.

May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.