#sappho of lesbos

[we-are-going-crazy-at-thebes]

girl help no one will remember us. not even in another time

#sappho #sapphism #sappho of lesbos #sapphic #tagamemnon #mine #the tags in this post are so cool thank you so much nonmen longing for a girl #1k #holy shit 1k likes

[evergreenalice]

Sappho was a magical girl in Madoka Magica

don't ask me for evidence, take this on faith

#madoka magica #puella magi madoka magica #pmmm #Sappho #sappho of lesbos

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

Does anyone else just sit and listen to the wind? Sit and listen as the wind whispers, and try to decipher their secrets? What are the secrets of the winds? They pass, hovering over the face of the stoic earth and the chaotic waters; surely they must know something?

Maybe on the winds are the words we leave unsaid. Maybe on the winds are each “I love you”, each “I’m sorry”, each “I’m… different.” Maybe on the wind is each curse, each rebuttle that was muttered in the prescense of oppression but never spoken loud enough to be heard over the wind. Maybe on the wind is the voice of the Divine, reaching out to us, filling us with life and spirit after our souls have been drained by the drudgery of everyday life.

Maybe it is poetry on the wind.

In the wind, I hear the love-filled melancholic poetry lost to time. But not lost forever: we hear. We know. We remember. We are the someone, in another time, that remembers the beautiful love and the desirous sin that we did in our reckless, wild youth of the past. And this poetry breathes in us, transforming us until we too breathe poetry. Until we too are living poetry.

#dark academia #poems and poetry #literature #quotes #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia aesthetics #dark acadamia quotes #dark academia lifestyle #dark academia literature #dark academia quotes #dark academia vibes #dark academic #dark academism #romanticism #dark romanticism #classic academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #sappho poetry #sappho of lesbos #dead poet society #young poets #spilled poetry #tumblr poetry #writers and poets #prose poetry #prose poem #poetscommunity #poets on tumblr #poets of tumblr #poetry inspiration

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

This book and this video comparing sappho to…

Sappho, I’m so sorry, we have failed you

#the LESBIAN LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA #WHAT #sappho #sappho of lesbos #sapphic #I’m so sorry girl

[thaliasthunder]

no bc aphrodite must've talked to her daughter piper about that one ancient woman that so often called out her help- and sometimes cursed her- whenever she fell in love w a beautiful woman. piper must have heard of sappho

#'curse u aphrodite for making me a hopeless romantic' go on girly #piper mclean #sappho of lesbos #sapphic #pjo #hoo #pjo/hoo #percy jackson #jason grace #leo valdez

[purlturtle]

A woman in Ancient Greece lived on a beautiful island where she wrote beautiful poetry renowned and celebrated long after her death. She was considered "the Tenth Muse", one of Greek literary canon's "Nine Lyric Poets" (ie similar with Shakespeare and Chaucer for English). And so outstanding was it that a woman should be this famous, that she was also simply known as "the Poetess", just as Homer (he of the Odyssey) was known as "the Poet".

That island was the island of Lesbos, and so the woman, Sappho, was rightfully called a Lesbian, as in "someone from Lesbos". Her style of poetry was known as Sapphic, after her name, just like Homeric became an adjective as well. And since, later, people interpreted some her works as depicting the love between women, both of these adjectives became words to describe that.

Lesbian and Sapphic are not "bad words". They describe beauty, poetry, and love. People have tried to make them slurs, yes, but thus for all the words that we queer people have to describe ourselves, every single one. I refuse to let hateful idiots take these words from me.

Lesbian and sapphic are beautiful words. Words full of love, words ringing with poetry. I wear them proudly.

#lesbian #sapphic #words #sappho of lesbos #queer #happy pride

[queenwendy]

I love it when queerphobic people are like “all this gay stuff was invented in the 1970s!” Or whatever because like, my guy, where do you think the term “Lesbian” comes from???

#sappho of lesbos #queer history #seriously like people need to do basic research before they open their bigoted mouths #the incuriosity of some people is astounding #wendy's posts #lesbian #lgbtqia

[ghost-with-a-pencil]

“May I write words more naked than flesh,

stronger than bone, more resilient than

sinew, sensitive than nerve.”

I’ve been totally in love with Sappho and her works recently, so inspiration struck! I used this vase painting of her

(it was painted over 100 years postmortem, but it’s the earliest confirmed image of her that has survived)

#ancient greek literature #ancient greece #ancient greek language #Sappho #sappho of lesbos #digital art #original content wow #poetry #ancient greek poetry #procreate #digital portrait

[ladysimrrr]

Fragments of Sappho (Psapfo)🧚🏾‍♀️

#sappho of lesbos #psapfo #lesbian poetry #lyricism #poetry #i care not for the honey nor the honey bee #what did sappho of lesbos texah but how lo love women? #aphrodite

[ocean-not-found]

Sappho is sat here, now. Staring at people. Contemplating how gay they are on a scale from Apollo to Dionysus.

#emo #sappho and her friend #sappho of lesbos #me and my gay little tumblr blog #im gay as hell #gay emo shit #gay #lesbian #bisexual #trans meme #dionysus #dionysian #I LOVE DIONYSUS #poetry #sappho #lgbt

[classicswhore]

This as absolutely atrocious. How DARE they butcher Sappho's poem like that. Quite frankly, it's disgusting.

The correct translation:

"Sweet Mother- I cannot weave. Slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl."

#sappho #poetry #fragment #how dare they butcher sappho #sapphic #sappho of lesbos

[we-are-going-crazy-at-thebes]

thanks mother Sappho for helping me with my gayness

#sappho #sapphic #sappho of lesbos #tagamemnon #ancient greece #sapphism #lgbtq #mine

[notaplaceofhonour]

Sappho Canceled For Being Bisexual, Not “Real” Lesbian, circa 570 BCE

#bi lesbians are valid #identity police will be blocked and sent to tartarus #the real name of the art is The Death of Sappho by pierre-auguste renoir #lgbtq humor #bisexual lesbian #sappho #bi lesbian #sapphic #sappho of lesbos #lesbian #bisexual #bisexuality #lgbtqplus #the death of sappho #pierre-auguste renoir #dark humor cw #dark humor #lesbian humor #bi humor #gay humor #queer humor #greek history #lesbian history #queer history

[berketex]

“sappho” - count prosper d’epinay , ca. 1895

at the metropolitan museum of art

#sappho #sapphic #sappho of lesbos #the metropolitan museum of art #metropolitan museum of art #metropolitan museum of modern art #count prosper d’epinay #art #sculpture

[cutegirl920]

Have a sapphic angst comic for Lesbian Visibility Week lol; this was originally an assignment for my AP Literature class months ago

#sapphic #wlw #lesbian #lesbians #sappho #sappho of lesbos #comic #angst #this was rushed hence why the anatomy and proportions are crap #my art #artists on tumblr

[sollyglo]

Sappho doodle 🌸

#my art <3 #sappho #sappho of lesbos #sapphic