Sappho Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
— Robert Browning
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
— Cesare Pavese
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he…
— Aristotle
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin,…
— Erica Jong
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
— Jeanette Winterson
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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…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in…
— Mercedes Lackey
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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.
— Nick Cave
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is…
— C.S. Lewis
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even…
— Anne Carson
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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…
— Erica Jong
Who Wrote These Sappho Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Sappho Quotes as follows: