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“]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things
yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things
yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.”
― Open Papers - Selected Essays
― Open Papers - Selected Essays
“Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love’s pre-eternal sadness.”
― Open Papers - Selected Essays
― Open Papers - Selected Essays
“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
“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
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