Truly, I wish I were dead. She was weeping when she left me, and said many things to me, and said this: 'How much we have suffered, Sappho. Truly, I don't want to leave you.'
Greek lyric poet
Fragment 94, as translated by Anne Carson in 'If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho'
c. 630-570 BC (original composition)
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