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This Foreign Affair
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‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you’, wrote Angelou. Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can’t speak, we can write. When we can’t write, we can read. When we can’t read, we can ...more
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Sappho
“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.”
Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

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

Sappho
“You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.”
Sappho

Sappho
“Honestly, I wish I were dead.
Weeping many tears, she left me and said,
“Alas, how terribly we suffer, Sappho.
I really leave you against my will.”

And I answered: “Farewell, go and remember me.
You know how we cared for you.

If not, I would remind you
... of our wonderful times.

For by my side you put on
many wreaths of roses
and garlands of flowers
around your soft neck.

And with precious and royal perfume
you anointed yourself.

On soft beds you satisfied your passion.

And there was no dance,
no holy place
from which we were absent.”
Sappho

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

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