Alcaeus of Mytilene

Not in hewn stones, nor in well-fashioned beams, There is the fortress, there the living State.

— Alcaeus of Mytilene

Raise a song for her, O Muse! My Sappho, sweetly-smiling.

— Alcaeus of Mytilene

O violet-tressed Sappho chaste, Did shame me not beguile.

— Alcaeus of Mytilene