Frases de Safo de Lesbos

“O homem belo só o é quando o contemplam, mas o homem sábio é belo mesmo quando ninguém o vê.”

“Se a morte fosse um bem, os deuses não seriam imortais.”

“Perante a cólera nada é mais conveniente do que o silêncio.”

citado em "Frases Geniais‎" - Página 274, de PAULO BUCHSBAUM, JAGUAR - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas

“Como a maçã doce que fica avermelhada no galho mais alto, a maçã mais alta na ponta do galho, e os catadores esqueceram, bem, não, eles não esqueceram, eles simplesmente não conseguiriam alcançá-lo.”

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“Nove são as Musas, dizem alguns; que descuido! Ora, Safo de Lesbos é a décima.”

“O que é belo é bom e o que é bom depressa será também belo”

epigrama atribuído a Platão (extraído de http://greciantiga.org/lit/lit04a-3.asp)

“Cintilação,
iridescente,
Afrodite imortal,
filha de Zeus, tecelã de artimanhas,
Peço-lhe,
não esmague o meu espírito com angústia, Senhora,
mas venha até mim agora...”

The beautiful is also good—the good is also beautiful
Safo citado em The Answer; Or, The World as Joy: An Essay in Philosophy ... - página 10, W J Chidley - 1915

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“Alguns homens dizem que uma frota de navios é a coisa mais bela. Digo que é o amor.”

“Shimmering,
iridescent,
deathless Aphrodite,
child of Zeus, weaver of wiles,
I beg you,
do not crush my spirit with anguish, Lady,
but come to me now…”

Safo de Lesbos: Frases em inglês

“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 1

“Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch,
the topmost apple on the tip of the branch,
and the pickers forgot it,
well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it.”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 72

“Truly, I wish I were dead.
She was weeping when she left me,
and said many things to me, and said this:
"How much we have suffered, Sappho.
Truly, I don't want to leave you."”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 69

“If you are my friend, stand up before me
and scatter the grace that's in your eyes.”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 11

“Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go?

I am gone and never come back to you.

I never return.”

Fragment 138 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, To a Handsome Man

“Some say cavalry and others claim
infantry or a fleet of long oars
is the supreme sight on the black earth.
I say it is

the one you love. And easily proved.
Didn't Helen, who far surpassed all
mortals in beauty, desert the best
of men, her king,

and sail off to Troy and forget
her daughter and her dear parents? Merely
Aphrodite's gaze made her readily bend
and led her far

from her path. These tales remind me now
of Anaktoria who isn't here,
yet I
for one

would rather see her warm supple step
and the sparkle in her face than watch all
the chariots in Lydia and foot soldiers armored
in glittering bronze.”

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Fragment 114 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Loss

“Eros has shaken my mind,
wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks”

Fragment 16 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Supreme Sight on the Black Earth

“A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 26

“Look at him, just like a god,
that man sitting across from you,
whoever he is,
listening to your
close, sweet voice,
your irresistible laughter
And O yes,
it sets my heart racing—
one glance at you
and I can't get any words out,
my voice cracks,
a thin flame runs under my skin,
my eyes go blind,
my ears ring,
a cold sweat pours down my body,
I tremble all over,
turn paler than grass.”

Fragment 50 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Exhortation to Learning

“O dream on your black wings
you come when I am sleeping.

Sweet is the god but still I am
in agony and far from my strength.

for I had hope (none now) to share
something of the blessed gods,

nor was I so foolish
as to scorn pleasant toys.

Now may I have
all these things.”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 20

“Of course I am downcast and tremble
with pity for my state
when old age and wrinkles cover me,

when Eros flies about
and I pursue the glorious young.
Pick up your lyre

and sing to us of her who wears
violets on her breasts. Sing especially
of her who is wandering.”

Fragment 63 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream

“Now may I have
all these things.”

Fragment 58 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Old Age

“Sweet is the god but still I am
in agony and far from my strength.”

Fragment 63 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream

“O dream on your black wings
you come when I am sleeping.”

The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream

“To have beauty is to have only that,
but to have goodness
is to be beautiful
too.”

The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream