“but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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Famous Sappho Quotes
“their heart grew cold they let their wings down”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….”
“]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“] ]you will remember ]for we in our youth did these things yes many and beautiful things ] ] ]”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“gathering flowers so very delicate a girl”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me - sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“neither for me honey nor the honey bee”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“I tell her I sing roses too, / My hands in the dirt where she lives forever”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“I asked myself What, Sappho, can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?”