Poetry Quote by Sappho — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“gathering flowers so very delicate a girl”

“]sing to us”

“]Sardis”

“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -”

“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things”

“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,”

“I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful”

“But I was young”

“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.”

“And watch two men washing clothes,”

“There exists a chance of every poem getting changed while reaching every reader. This ‘getting changed’ is a form of ‘getting translated’, in a way. So, every assimilation of any poem is a translation.”

“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.”