Friday, June 10, 2011

Sappho: Advice

If you are squeamish
Don't prod the
beach rubble.

--Sappho

Sappho: A New Translationfrom Mary Barnard's translation

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You can hear some of Sappho's poetry read in her original Greek here

And you can get the above quote on a t-shirt from Shimer College.

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