Sappho Quotes

The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.

Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)

Eros has shaken my mind,
wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks

of Sappho few flowers, but they are roses;

Living unloved, to die unknown,
Unwept, untended and alone.

Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch,
the topmost apple on the tip of the branch,
and the pickers forgot it,
well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it.