SAPPHO QUOTES
Pick top ones!
Positivity and physical sensations, sensual, sexually fulfilling
‘soothed my soul’
‘on a soft bed... you satisifed your desire’
‘there was no sacred space...from which we stayed away’
‘good times’
‘many...beautiful things’
‘the clear-voiced nightingale’ (positive and negative of heterosexual rels -
> same-sex pleasure more positive)
‘tremor seizes me’
‘love that loosens the limbs once again shakes me’ (Loeb 130)
‘sweat pours over me’
‘greener than grass’
‘honestly, I want to die’ ‘a certain longing to die grips me’
‘wreaths you placed around your head’
‘garlands...around your lovely neck’ (eyes scanning down body)
Human openness to all aspects of same-sex relationships
‘she’ x7 in Loeb 1 (love at the forefront of her mind)
‘overpower my heart with anguish, with affliction’
‘suffering…despairing…hurting…distress’
‘who, Sappho, has hurt you this time?’
‘delicate fire’
, Physical
‘strikes terror’
‘like a wind buffeting oak trees’
‘salty sea’ (Loeb 96) (ambiguous – arousal and tears)
‘on the point of death’ (anguish and orgasm, colloquial phrase la petite
mort)
Ambiguity (bc coded – contrast with Plato openly championing)
‘good times’
‘on a soft bed’
‘no sacred space…from which we stayed away’
Danger of Eros
‘circling you’
‘bitter-sweet, invincible creature that he is’
‘like a wind buffeting oak trees’
Danger to oikos
‘cannot weave my web’
‘Cypris, may she find you to be the most bitter’ ??
Brothers poem –
Helen priamel
‘most excellent of all men’ (Menealus – sympathy, disapproval of adultery)
Personal emotion overshadowed by societal unwillingness to accept
female desire – underlying heteronormativity
‘cannot weave my web’
Pick top ones!
Positivity and physical sensations, sensual, sexually fulfilling
‘soothed my soul’
‘on a soft bed... you satisifed your desire’
‘there was no sacred space...from which we stayed away’
‘good times’
‘many...beautiful things’
‘the clear-voiced nightingale’ (positive and negative of heterosexual rels -
> same-sex pleasure more positive)
‘tremor seizes me’
‘love that loosens the limbs once again shakes me’ (Loeb 130)
‘sweat pours over me’
‘greener than grass’
‘honestly, I want to die’ ‘a certain longing to die grips me’
‘wreaths you placed around your head’
‘garlands...around your lovely neck’ (eyes scanning down body)
Human openness to all aspects of same-sex relationships
‘she’ x7 in Loeb 1 (love at the forefront of her mind)
‘overpower my heart with anguish, with affliction’
‘suffering…despairing…hurting…distress’
‘who, Sappho, has hurt you this time?’
‘delicate fire’
, Physical
‘strikes terror’
‘like a wind buffeting oak trees’
‘salty sea’ (Loeb 96) (ambiguous – arousal and tears)
‘on the point of death’ (anguish and orgasm, colloquial phrase la petite
mort)
Ambiguity (bc coded – contrast with Plato openly championing)
‘good times’
‘on a soft bed’
‘no sacred space…from which we stayed away’
Danger of Eros
‘circling you’
‘bitter-sweet, invincible creature that he is’
‘like a wind buffeting oak trees’
Danger to oikos
‘cannot weave my web’
‘Cypris, may she find you to be the most bitter’ ??
Brothers poem –
Helen priamel
‘most excellent of all men’ (Menealus – sympathy, disapproval of adultery)
Personal emotion overshadowed by societal unwillingness to accept
female desire – underlying heteronormativity
‘cannot weave my web’
