Did Sappho really say 'I want to tell you something but good taste. Restrains me.'?

Sappho Quote Source & Citation:

I want to tell you something but good taste. Restrains me.

— Sappho Ancient · Greek lyric poet

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"If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble."

"No honey for me, if it comes with a bee."

"Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done."

"The gorgeous man presents a gorgeous view; The good man will in time be gorgeous, too."

"What cannot be said will be wept."

Fragment 168B, as translated by Anne Carson in 'If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho'

Date: c. 630-570 BC (original composition)

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