Sappho quotes

Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save That beast imbued with such immortal fire? Could she not live who life eternal gave?

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 39.

Belove'  d, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever suits the line; Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Only, only call meThine.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Names', a translation from G E Lessing's German original (first published in the Morning Post,1803).

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