“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….” — Sappho Copy Share Image
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed. But there's one thing still troubling me: You don't know your way to the sea.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Wealth without real worthiness Is no good for the neighbourhood; But their proper mixture Is the summit of beatitude.” — Sappho Copy Share Image
“In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure… — Tai Odunsi Copy Share Image
“She murmured, “I love the imagery of Sappho, the warm summer air across the velvety darkness, the lover between love’s thighs.” She… — Paul A. Myers Copy Share Image
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“But thou shalt ever lie dead nor shall there be any remembrance of thee then or ever, for thou hast none of… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“In Ancient Greek literature male poets tend not simply to portray women as lecherous but to attribute to them a species of… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You've surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad… — Gerd Brantenberg Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I wish I were dead. Weeping many tears, she left me and said, “Alas, how terribly we suffer, Sappho. I really… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“When I’d checked into the bathroom with Seymour’s diary under my arm, and had carefully secured the door behind me, I spotted… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Sapphic Chords On what marble stones would you scratch your love today? Spray it on brick walls, rap it in pool halls,… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“ERANNA TO SAPPHO O You wild adept at throwing! Like a spear by other things, I'd lain there beside my next of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And now it is said of me That my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or because I have… — James Wright Copy Share Image
