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“I simply want to be dead.
Weeping she left me
with many tears and said this:
Oh how badly things have turned out for us.
Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you.
And I answered her:
Rejoice, go and
remember me. For you know how we cherished you.”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Weeping she left me
with many tears and said this:
Oh how badly things have turned out for us.
Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you.
And I answered her:
Rejoice, go and
remember me. For you know how we cherished you.”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
“for when i look at you, even a moment, no
speaking is left in me
no: tongue breaks and thin
fire is racing under skin”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
speaking is left in me
no: tongue breaks and thin
fire is racing under skin”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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