#sapho

[yumykon]

I wish that moment had lasted forever ~

[naldibutnice]

Pauline Frederick for Sapho (1917)

[artgate-blog]

Charles-August Mengin

Sappho

1877

[oldartss]

Sapho by Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829)

[lycophyll]

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell Nam June Paik, 1984 International satellite installation

[devotee-of-aphrodite-venus]

O Venus,

O Venus, beauty of the skies,

To whom a thousand temples rise,

Gaily false in gentle smiles,

Full of love-perplexing wiles;

O goddess, from my heart remove

The wasting cares and pains of love

—Sapho

[isaiahpadams]

[gothsoyl]

“I'm not pretending; I wish I were dead.”

She was leaving me in tears,

and over and over she said to me

“Sappho, it hurts;

what's happened to us is just so grim;

it isn't my choice,

I swear it, to leave like this.”

sappho fragment 94 × agathario