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Sappho Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
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- Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning
- For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. — Cesare Pavese
- The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians… — Aristotle
- The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but… — Erica Jong
- Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out. — Jeanette Winterson
- But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown,… — D. H. Lawrence
- Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey
- You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave
- You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But… — C.S. Lewis
- I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets… — Anne Carson
- I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion.… — Erica Jong