Ismarus

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“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.”
― Sappho , If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.”
― Michael Simpson, The Metamorphoses of Ovid

“]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho