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.'
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"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."
"I would not trade my love for all of Lydia."
"May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve."
"I can't stand being the old one any longer, Living with you."
"Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us."
Fragment 94, as translated by Anne Carson in 'If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho'
Date: c. 630-570 BC (original composition)
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