Poetry Quote by Sappho — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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“gathering flowers so very delicate a girl”

“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -”

“their heart grew cold”

“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things”

“]sing to us”

“The Soul selects her own Society—”

“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;”

“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.”

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”