You may forget butLet me tell youthis: someone insome future timewill think of us Beautiful, painful, evocative, sensual and lush are a few ways to describe Sappho's poetry. Even if we only have incomplete and broken fragments of her poetry, there is no absence of emotion.
Sappho is the great lyric poet of antiquity. Plato called her the "tenth muse." Her poems were preserved until nearly A.D 1000, at least according to A Book of Woman Poets, "when a wrathful church destroyed whatever it could find. In 1073 her writings were publicly burned in Rome and Constantinople ...
I was just looking for one bit and then ended up rereading it all. Because Sappho.
Mythmakers - Mary Barnard
Three Fables - Mary Barnard
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