Quotes About Sappho

Her time-scissored work is not quite language poetry, but a more joyful cousin of the eternal scant-garde, which is always and never new. So Sappho is ancient and, for a hundred reasons, modern.

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

Some say there are nine Muses. Count again. Behold the tenth: Sappho of Lesbos.

The world has suffered no greater literary loss than the loss of Sappho's poems.

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.