"May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve."
"For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die."
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Source: Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.84, Univ of California Press
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