FastSaying
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….
Sappho
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eros
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love
poetry
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— Sappho
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You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.
— Sappho
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I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.
— Sappho
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You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful...
— Sappho
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The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You've surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad every time a young woman left the academy that she wrote her a poem. Fancy being sad because someone leaves! Perverted, that's what I call it. Don't you?
— Gerd Brantenberg
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