Sappho

“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just”

“You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.”

“their heart grew cold they let their wings down”

“In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.”

“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”

“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women as sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered...”