Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain _x000D_ shaking ancient oaks.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the overwhelming and transformative power of love.
In this quote, Sappho illustrates love as a force that deeply affects the essence of a person, akin to how powerful winds can uproot ancient trees. Love, represented by Eros, transforms and stirs the soul, suggesting its potency and the emotional upheaval it can cause.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to describe the transformative power of love.
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.
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return... you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.
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