Sappho

Sappho
(said to have flourished in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BCE)

“‘She who shuns love soon will pursue it,
She who scorns gifts will send them still:
That girl will learn love, though she do it
Against her will.'”

  • From a poem fragment known variously as “Fragment 1,” or “Subtly bedizened Aphrodite,” or “The Justice [or Ode or Hymn] of Aphrodite in Sappho Fr. 1,” included in Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments, translated and introduced by Aaron Poochigian. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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