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.
In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the springβ
...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
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