1. “He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.” – Sappho
2. “The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.” – Sappho
3. “Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.” – Sappho
4. “Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.” – Sappho
5. “You came, and I was longing for you. You cooled a heart that burned with desire.” – Sappho
6. “She is arrogant, like young men who are loved.” – Sappho
7. “Come and be my girl. To feel your face and hear your footsteps, I’d give the world.” – Sappho
8. “Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.” – Sappho
9. “You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.” – Sappho
10. “And with precious and royal perfume you anointed yourself.” – Sappho
11. “Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.” – Sappho
12. “How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.” – Sappho
13. “All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.” – Sappho
14. “The blessed Graces love to gaze at one in flowers but turn their backs on one whose hair is bare.” – Sappho
15. “He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.” – Sappho
16. “Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.” – Sappho
17. “No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.” – Sappho
18. “I would not think to touch the sky with two arms.” – Sappho
19. “Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.” – Sappho
20. “As sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields.” – Sappho
21. “What cannot be said will be wept.” – Sappho
22. “stars around the beautiful moon hide back their luminous form whenever all full she shines on the earth – Sappho
23. “Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.” – Sappho
24. “I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.” – Sappho
25. “Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.” – Sappho
26. “I know not what to do, my mind is divided.” – Sappho
27. “Dawn with arms of roses.” – Sappho
28. “Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.” – Sappho
29. “With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down.” – Sappho
30. “And when you are gone, there will be no memory of you and no regret. For you do not share the Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades you will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead.” – Sappho
31. “If you are my friend, stand up before me and scatter the grace that’s in your eyes.” – Sappho
32. “When wrath runs rampage in your heart, you must hold still that rambunctious tongue!” – Sappho
33. “Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.” – Sappho
34. “For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be.” – Sappho
35. “Dancing up the full moon round some fair new altar. Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.” – Sappho
36. “Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.” – Sappho
37. “May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.” – Sappho
38. “Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.” – Sappho
39. “Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes.” – Sappho
40. “There is no place for grief in a house which serves the muse.” – Sappho
41. “Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?” – Sappho
42. “Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.” – Sappho
43. “I have flown to you like a child to her mother.” – Sappho
44. “I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.” – Sappho
45. “Their heart grew cold. They let their wings down.” – Sappho
46. “When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.” – Sappho
47. “I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.” – Sappho
48. “How is a woman making love to another woman any different than a woman making love to a man?” – Sappho
49. “It’s like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It’s the hardest thing loving someone who doesn’t love you.” – Sappho
50. “The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars” – Sappho
51. “Someone will remember us, even in another time.” – Sappho
52. “Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart.” – Sappho
53. “You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.” – Sappho
54. “Whatever one loves most is beautiful.” – Sappho
55. “For me, neither the honey nor the bee.” – Sappho
56. “A handsome man guards his image a while a good man will one day take on beauty.” – Sappho
57. “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.” – Sappho
58. “Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.” – Sappho
59. “From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.” – Sappho
60. “You came, and I was crazy for you, and you cooled my mind that burned with longing.” – Sappho
61. “Love shook my heart Like the wind on the mountain rushing over the oak trees.” – Sappho
62. “Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.” – Sappho
63. “But the act, called the sexual act, is not for depositing of seed.” – Sappho
64. “In the crooks of your body, I find my religion.” – Sappho
65. “Sweet is the god, but still, I am in agony and far from my strength.” – Sappho
66. “Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.” – Sappho
67. “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.” – Sappho
68. “Love shook my heart like a wind falling on oaks – Sappho
69. “I am weary of all your words and soft, strange ways.” – Sappho
70. “The dice of love are shouting and madness.” – Sappho
71. “What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.” – Sappho
72. “I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.” – Sappho
73. “For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be.” – Sappho