tee's Reviews > Come Close

03/80 penguin little black classics
just me, her (sappho) and the moon :-) not only am i Alive but this has birthed me. i hadn’t read any translation that wasn’t by carson before but i really enjoyed this one (though “subtly bedizened aphrodite” was jarring)! so beautiful? so heartbreaking? no choice but to stare at the sky and/or the ceiling for hours. also! “i declare / that later on / even in an age unlike our own / someone will remember who we are” (written centuries before christ....... i’m crying) has to be in the top three of Those lines from literature for me, the most impactful and life-changing........the world is so beautiful and the only energy i have left in me is to live with a tender heart. thinking about the handprints on cave walls and old letters and paintings that have survived and all that we have lost... languages and voices i will never hear and the thoughts and feelings i will never know and the culture i will never see?!!! i am going to EXPLODE