Quotes About Lesbos

Holy Lesbos, Batman!

niin kuin Lesboksen runoilija, kaikkia muita etevämpi

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.

Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to say, Chalmers and myself were both virgins, in every possible meaning of the word.

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

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

Island of Lesbos