#fragments of sappho
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Sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured out and roses bloom and frail chervil and flowering sweetclover.
Sappho, from If not, winter: fragments of Sappho (trans. by Anne Carson)
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tbosas characters as sappho fragments
#tbosas#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#sappho#fragments of sappho#my two biggest interests SMASHED#translation by diane j. rayor#coriolanus snow#lamina tbosas#lucy gray baird#coral tbosas#jessup diggs#treech tbosas#sejanus plinth#tigris snow#livia cardew#treemina#the hunger games#thg
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Every once in a while I remember Anne Carson's If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, and I have to go crazy and read it all in one sitting. Anyway, have a few choice Sappho fragments:
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I would absolutely love to hear more about your Aphrodite & Sappho UPG if you're comfortable with sharing! 💖
hello lovely ! I am comfortable, though it's heavily influenced by how i interpret Sappho's work and how i view Aphrodite. a lot of it stems from my own relationship with Aphrodite, and the ways I feel She interacts with Her devotees. me, and many others I've met, have very personal and intimate relationships with Aphrodite. Her willingness to extend Her influence or opinion over anything that matters to me is something I deeply appreciate about her. it's what allowed me to cultivate a very unique love for Her and feel assured that She loves me back.
Sappho's poetry in particular has heavy themes of love and longing. she writes of the her love for the people in her life, the things she admires, and particularly writes of details in the world around her. when i read Sappho's work, I feel a sense of love and wonder for the world she inhabited.
poetry hinges on personal interpretation, but I feel like Sappho was entrenched in a very romantic view of the world. even something as commonplace like the cicadas is worth observing and turning into poetry. i believe the world was a poem to someone like Sappho, and when I first discovered her works it reminded me deeply of how the world looks when Aphrodite is around. I see Aphrodisian themes in a multitude of Sappho's fragments as well.
the Ode to Aphrodite really sealed my UPG however. for one, it's the only known poem of Sappho that we have in it's entirety. i wouldn't be surprised if Aphrodite had a small hand in ensuring it's preservation and survival. the poem itself is so beautiful too. Sappho speaks directly to Aphrodite with such a familiarity and openness. the poem isn't a lovey-dovey love song, it both praises and curses Aphrodite for the pains She inflicts. many hymns are worded to flatter the Theoi, but Sappho gives much more personality and dimension to Aphrodite. these lines in particular stand out heavily to me:
"and you, blessed one, with a smile"
"asked what was the matter with me this time and why I was calling this time"
"who wrongs you, Sappho?"
this is not their first meeting by a long shot, there's such familiarity that Aphrodite smiles when She sees Sappho. Aphrodite asks Sappho what is the matter, and Aphrodite has come when Sappho called out to Her.
there is such an endearing air to these lines. hell, to the entire poem. even as Sappho vents to Aphrodite, she still asks for Her to deliver her from the sorrows that Aphrodite is blamed for at the end of the poem
i hold a UPG that Sappho was "devoted" (however that looked for her) to Aphrodite in a relationship that was intimate and personal. i believe that Sappho probably held a love for Aphrodite that was unique to the human women she knew. I also believe that Aphrodite held Sappho very dearly, both because of how Sappho portrays Aphrodite and because of my views on Aphrodite as a goddess.
i hesitate to say that they were "in love" with each other, because i think that is probably a gross oversimplification. I think that Sappho adored Aphrodite, and that Aphrodite adored her back. I think that the things Sappho cries to Aphrodite are deeper than a typical kharis-based relationship. i think that Aphrodite heard poetry from her that no other ear was privy to. so, I simply call them lovers, because in one way or another i believe that love was not one-sided
#aphrodite#sappho#upg#personal#helpol#hellenic polytheism#hero worship#sappho worship#aphrodite deity#aphrodite worship#hellenic pagan#poetry#fragments of sappho#ask#kyprigeneia
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“Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time”
Sappho, Fragment 147
#sapphic#sappho#poetry#poem#fragments of sappho#fragment 147#legacy#this was my senior quote#the anne carson translations are magnificent#quote
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fragments of sappho
c. 600 BCE
#IM SO FUNNY#bluenouveau#sappho#classics#hehehehehehehehheh#fragments#fragments of sappho#anne carson lmao
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anne carson - if not, winter: fragments of sappho
#here they go posting carson’s sappho translations#i feel like a stereotype#anyways#anne carson#fragments of sappho#real
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"you came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing"
- Sappho (translated by Anne Carson in If not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho)
#quote#quotes#love#longing#desire#sappho#sapphic#anne carson#if not winter#if not winter fragments of sappho#fragments of sappho#poem#poetry#greek#lyric#kj post
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sappho fragment 37: IN MY PAIN
#been reading a collected work of her poems and its making me emotional 😔#my pain drips too!!!! fuck !!!!#my writing#my writing tag#poetry#sappho#sappho poetry#fragments of sappho#quotes#spilled ink
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Fragments of Sappho from the book If Not, Winter by Anne Carson
gladness and with good luck to gain the harbor of black earth...sailors in big blasts of wind upon dry land...sail the freight when many works dry land (20)
frequently for those...i treat well are the ones who most of all harm me...crazy...you, i want to suffer in myself I am aware of this (26)
you burn me (38)
their hearts grew cold they let their wings down (42)
Eros shook my mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees (47)
not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this (56)
But I love delicacy...and this to me—the brilliance and the beauty of the sun—desire has allotted (58)
You cowered laurel tree...but everything sweeter than that...and for them traveler...but I scarcely ever listened soul beloved...and such now to arrive kindly...you got there first: beautiful and the clothes (62)
you Mika...but I will not allow you, you chose the love of Penthelids...evilturning some sweet song in honey voice piercing breezes wet with dew (71)
someone more sweetly and you yourself know (88a)
me, you, shall love (88b)
I simply want to be dead, weeping she left me...with many tears and said this: Oh how badly things have turned out for us. Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you...and I answered her: Rejoice, go and remember me. For you know how we cherished you...but if not, I want to remind you and beautiful times we had...for many crowns of violets and roses at my side you put on...and many woven garlands made of flowers around your soft throat...and with sweet oil costly you anointed yourself...and on a soft bed delicate you would let loose your longing...and neither any nor any holy place nor was there from which we were absent...no grove no dance no sound (94)
of all stars the most beautiful (104b)
virginity virginity where are you gone leaving me behind? no longer will I come to you no longer will I come (114)
but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind (120)
but me you have forgotten (129a)
or you love some man more than me (129b)
messenger of spring nightingale with a voice of longing (136)
neither for me honey nor the honey bee (146)
someone will remember us, I say, even in another time (147)
spangled is the earth with her crowns (168c)
honeyvoiced (185)
mythweaver (188)
#Fragments of Sappho#Anne Carson#Sappho#I think everyone should go read this book it's very nice to see her writing alongside the Greek and it's formatted in a very nice poetic#way which i cannot replicate here in the same way so some of the fragments might come off less poetic
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fragments of sappho / 22
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(I was dreaming of you but) just then Dawn, in her golden sandals (woke me)
Sappho, from Sappho: Poems & Fragments (tr. Josephine Balmer)
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there is something beautiful, yet tragic and yet still comforting about fragmented poetry.
beautiful as we can search for a hidden meaning that may touch us in the way that we need it to.
tragic because we can never know the poet's full feelings as they were writing. they are lost.
comforting as it shows people have never really changed. a fragment can just be a passing thought, but as we all experience this, we can, in a way, live forever.
#dark academia#sappho#writers#dead poetry#poets on tumblr#sad poetry#spilled ink#poetic fragments#fragments of sappho#literature#nature#coffee#romanticism#spilled thoughts#fragment#coffeshop#love
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is ur header a sappho fragment?
yep!
"someone will remember us / i say /even in another time"
it’s fragment 147.
this specific translation is by anne carson in 2002. as sappho lived in the 600s/500s BCE (so like, 2600 years ago), and wrote in the Aeolic dialect of Archaic Greek, every translation varies a bit. plus influence from the translator.
it reminds me of queer people throughout history who were erased by history, persecuted, wishing for a better world. still living and loving in quiet. and i grieve for them, and i rejoice cause i’m living the life they wanted for us, and i think about everything else that needs to change still.
the image is from the internet, i don’t actually have the book (If Not, Winter) - yet. i ordered it through a local specialty bookstore, so i’m excited for that to come eventually.
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love, lay me down under grass & sunlight, and touch me [right here], and here and here, where the ache & hurt have gone to nest. [(now again)] my fingers will find yours, tangle & sweeten the air, and the birds will cry [for] us alone.
fragment 83, sappho (tr. by anne carson)
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Finally got my hands on the holy words thank u thriftbooks
the good book has spoken
#sappho#if not winter#anne carson#fragments of sappho#i waited so fuckin long for this to be in stock#thriftbooks
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