104 Quotes About Sappho

In pityandtremblingold age nowcovers my flesh.Yet there is chasing and floatingafter a young woman.Pick up your lyreand sing to usof one with roseson her robe, especiallywandering

Gongylasurely a signespecially for childrenwho came hereI said, O master [...] by the blessedAfroditi [...] I swear I take no pleasurein being on the earthbut a longing seizes me to dieand see the dewylotus banks of the Aheron

When you lie dead no one will rememberor long for you later. You do not share the rosesof Pieria. Unseen here and in the house of Hades,flown away, you will flitter among dim corpses.

Really, if you are my friend,choose a younger bedI can't bear to live withwhen I am the older

Andromedaforgotbut PsapfoI loved youIn Kypros I am queenfor you a poweras sun blazesglory everywhere;even by the Aheron I am with you

Yet I love refinement and Eros has got mebrightness and the beauty of the sun.

Really, if you are my friend,chose a younger bed.I cannot bear to live with youwhen I am the older.

One evening, while drinking wine, the nephew of Solon the Athenian sang one of Sappho's songs, and Solon liked it so much that he ordered the boy to teach it to him. When one of the company asked why he was learning it, he answered, 'I want to learn it and die.

If we compare Sappho's poems with Anakreon's or the Sibyl's oracles with the prophet Bakis, then it is clear that the art of poetry or of prophecy is not one art practiced by men and another when practiced by women. It is the same. Can anyone protest this conclusion?