Ancient
Sappho
c. 630–c. 570 BCE
Poet of Lesbos
Almost everything she wrote is gone. What remains is precise about desire: the body fails, the beloved is across the room, and the sentence stays steady enough to carry both facts.
Ancient
c. 630–c. 570 BCE
Poet of Lesbos
Almost everything she wrote is gone. What remains is precise about desire: the body fails, the beloved is across the room, and the sentence stays steady enough to carry both facts.