230 Quotes About Willis-barnstone
- Author Sappho
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Really, if you are my friend, choose a younger bed.I can’t bear to live with you when I am the older one
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- Author Willis Barnstone
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Her time-scissored work is not quite language poetry, but a more joyful cousin of the eternal scant-garde, which is always and never new. So Sappho is ancient and, for a hundred reasons, modern.
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- Author Sappho
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Someone, I tell you, in another time,will remember us.
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When their souls grew cold they droppedtheir wings to their sides
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- Author Sappho
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I cannot imagine in the future any girlwho looks on the light of the sunwho will have your skill and wisdom.
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- Author Sappho
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My pain dripsMay terrifying winds carry off him who blames me
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- Author Sappho
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For you Kleis I have no embroideredheadband and no ideawhere to find one while the Mytilinian rulesThese colorfully embroideredheadbandsthese things the children of the Kleanax In exilememories terribly wasted away
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- Author Sappho
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O Kypris and the Nereids, I pray youto sail my brother home unharmedand let him accomplish allthat is in his heartand be released from former errorand carry joy to his friendsand bane to enemies and let no onebring us more grief.Let him honor me his sister.But black tormentsuffering for early days,citizens accused.Was it over millet seed?Pure Kypris, put asideold anger and free him fromevil sorrow
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By givinggood fameyour beauty and nobilityto such friendsyou sicken me with painBlame you? SwollenHave your fill of themFor my thinking it is poorly doneand all night I understand basenessOthermindsthe blessed
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