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Sappho
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“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
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“I know not what to do; my mind is divided.”
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“When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly.”
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“He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.”
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“Art thou the topmost apple / The gatherers could not reach, / Reddening on the bough? / Shall I not take thee?”
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“To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.”
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“Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.”
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“The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.”
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“Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.”
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“No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.”
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“Gentle ladies, you will remember till old age what we did together in our brilliant youth!”
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“Although they are / Only breath, words / which I command / are immortal.”
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“You may forget but / Let me tell you / this: someone in / some future time / will think of us.”
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“Love — bittersweet, irrepressible — / loosens my limbs and I tremble.”
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“Someone, I tell you / will remember us. / We are oppressed by / fears of oblivion.”
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“I sang for you, not for posterity. Fame for its own sake is vain, and what do I care for praise after death?”
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“In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.”
Sappho, Greek poet
(613 BCE - 580 BCE)