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Sappho

Sappho (Σαπφώ or Ψάπφω) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos; she was also said to have been born in Eresos, another city on Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Quotes

b8671632321has quoted4 months ago
The moon and the Pleiades set; it is midnight. Time passes and I lie alone.
Aldair Apodacahas quoted2 years ago
You will have memories

Because of what we did back then

When we were new at this,

Yes, we did many things, then – all

Beautiful …
Aldair Apodacahas quoted2 years ago
That fellow strikes me as god’s double,

Couched with you face to face, delighting

In your warm manner, your amiable

Talk and inviting

Laughter – the revelation flutters

My ventricles, my sternum and stomach.

The least glimpse, and my lost voice stutters,

Refuses to come back

Because my tongue is shattered. Gauzy

Flame runs radiating under

My skin; all that I see is hazy,

My ears all thunder.

Sweat comes quickly, and a shiver

Vibrates my frame. I am more sallow

Than grass and suffer such a fever

As death should follow.

But I must suffer further, worthless

As I am …

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I can understand the lust and deep sadness in these texts, makes me interested in other translations and in reading the poems in a difrent language.

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