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“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
― Sappho

“The world has suffered no greater literary loss than the loss of Sappho's poems.”
― John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets

“And her light
stretches over salt sea
equally and flowerdeep fields.

Sappho”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart