Quotes About Sappho

delicate Adonis is dying Kythereia what should we do? strike yourselves maidens and tear your garments

I bid you sing … as (now again) longing floats around you, you beauty.

Andromeda in a beautiful exchange, 'Psapfo, why ignore Afroditi rich in blessings?

Who, Sappho, at a word, must grow Again receptive to your love? Who wronged you so?

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees

Nocturne Midnight. The moon has set, and the Pleiades. The hours pass and pass, yet still I lie alone. Sappho

For Byron, the most moving sight was "Sappho's Leap," at the southeasternmost point of Ithaca, from where the poet, martyr to betrayed passion, is supposed to have flung herself into the sea.

The island of Lesbos has given many gifts to the world—Lesbian wine and Lesbian verse, the seven-stringed lyre, and the poems of Sappho; but of all its products the latest was assuredly the most questionable, for the last great Lesbians were the brothers Barbarossa.

Fantastic truths perish slower... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.

But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold.

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

Poetry… it consumed Sappho's young years, it nourished Goethe's old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.

The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You've surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad every time a young woman left the academy that she wrote her a poem. Fancy being sad because someone leaves! Perverted, that's what I call it. Don't you?

The Literature of Man... When Plato – was a Certainty – And Sophocles – a Man – When Sappho – was a living Girl – And Beatrice wore The Gown that Dante – deified – Facts Centuries before...

But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora said modestly. "I write poems down in this notebook. It's an interest of mine." "Sappho!" Sunny shrieked, which meant something like, "I'd be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!

What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?

Lesbia quid docuit Sappho nisi amare puellas?

Check it out-this is a copy of a painting of a Greek High Priestess named Calliope. it says she was also the Poet Laureate after Sappho. Doesn't she look exactly like Cher?' Wow, that's insane. She does look just like young Cher,' Erin said. Yeah, before she started wearing those white wigs. What the hell's up with that?' Shaunee said. Damien gave the Twins a look. 'There is nothing wrong with Cher. Absolutely. Nothing.' Uh-oh,' Shaunee said. Stepped on a gay nerve,' Erin agreed.

Know thyself,' said Socrates. Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out.

Somehow, even the slightest words and phrases of Sappho yield her voice.