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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"I would not trade my love for all of Lydia."
"I would rather see her lovely step and the radiant sparkle of her face than all the chariots of Lydia."
"May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve."
"I have no complaint... prosperity that the golden Muses gave me was no delusion: dead, I won't be forgotten."
"My blood with gentle horrors thrilled: My feeble pulse forgot to play; I fainted, sunk, and died away."
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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