Come Close Quotes

“You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,

Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful...”
― Sappho, Come Close

“I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go
Always remembering what we did. To me
You have meant everything, as you well know.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful...”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Some call ships, infantry or horsemen
The greatest beauty earth can offer;
I say it is whatever a person
Most lusts after.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“What was my mad heart dreaming of?”
― Sappho, Come Close

“But when you lie dead
No one will notice later or feel sad
Because you gathered no sprays from the roses
Of the pierian muses

Once lost in Hade's hall
You will be homeless and invisible
Another shadow flittering back and forth
With shadows of no worth”
― Sappho, Come Close

“The girl adored you more than anything,
As if you were a goddess -
But most of all she loved to hear you sing.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“She who shuns love soon will pursue it,
She who scorns gifts will send them still:
That girl will learn to love, though she do it
Against her will.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“There is a boy, and lust
Has crushed my spirit - just
As gentle Aphrodite planned.
Since I have cast my lot, please, golden-crowned
Aphrodite, let me win this round!”
― Sappho, Come Close

“May gales and anguish sweep elsewhere
The killer of my character
But I am hardly some backbitter bent
On vengence but; no, my heart is lenient”
― Sappho, Come Close

“She who shuns love soon will pursue it,
She who scorns gifts will send them still:
That girl will learn love, through she do it
Against her will.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view;
The good man will in time be gorgeous, too.

Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighborhood;
But their proper mixture is
The summit of beatitude.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Peace, you never seemed so tedious
As now - no, never quite like this.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Once lost in Hades' hall
You will be homeless and invisible -
Another shadow flittering back and forth
With shadows of no worth.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Age weighs heavily on me, and the knees
Buckle that long ago, like fawns, pranced nimbly.
I groan much but to what end? Humans simply
Cannot be ageless like divinities.
They say that rosy-forearmed Dawn, when stung
With love, swept a sweet youth to the earth's rim -
Tithonus. Even there age withered him,
Bound still to a wife forever young.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“As you are dear to me, go claim a younger
Bed as your due.
I can't stand being the old one any longer,
Living with you.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Atthis, you looked at what I was
And hated what you saw”
― Sappho, Come Close

“But a strange longing to pass on Seizes me, and I need to see
Lotuses on the dewy banks of Acheron.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“He is unrivalled, like a Lesbian
Musician matched with other men.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Some call ships, infantry, or horsemen
The greatest beauty earth can offer;
I say it is whatever a person
Most lusts after.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“I groan much but to what end? Humans simply
Cannot be ageless like divinities.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“Who, Sappho, at a word, must grow
Again receptive to your love?
Who wronged you so?”
― Sappho, Come Close

“May gales and anguish sweep elsewhere
The killer of my character.
But I am hardly some backbiter bent
On vengeance; no, my heart is lenient.”
― Sappho, Come Close