193 Quotes by Sappho

I know not what to do, my mind is divided.

Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes.

Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.

In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.

I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. Kle.

In Ancient Greek literature male poets tend not simply to portray women as lecherous but to attribute to them a species of lust different from that of males: a subhuman and automatic reflex, an animalistic urge. Sappho is important because she gives a fulle human voice to female desire for the first time in Western history. Since she defiantly chooses the quintessential love-object Helen of Troy as her freethinking agent, she seems fully conscious of the revolutionary claim she is making.

For me, neither the honey nor the bee.

And with precious and royal perfume you anointed yourself.