Author: Sappho
Cited by
- Christa Wolf (1)
- IN: Cassandra (1983) Fiction, , German
EPIGRAPH: Once again limb-loosing love shakes me, bitter-sweet, untamable, a dusky animal.
FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Greece
- Hak Kyun Cha, Theresa (1)
- IN: Dictee (1982) Fiction, Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: May I write words more naked than flesh
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Sarah Porter (2)
- IN: Vassa in the Night (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Night, you bring home all things
That the shining dawn scatters:
You bring home a lamb,
Bring home a kid,
Bring home a child to its mother.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Stephanie Danler (2)
- IN: Sweetbitter (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Eros once again limb-loosner whirls me
Sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up.
FROM: Eros the Bittersweet, (None), NULL, Greece
- IN: Sweet Bitter (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me
Sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up.
FROM: Eros the Bittersweet, (None), Book, NULL
- Sherman Alexie (1)
- IN: Ten Little Indians (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Love — bittersweet, irrepressible—
loosens my limbs and I tremble.
FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Greece
- Emily Gray Tedrowe (1)
- IN: Blue Stars (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: To an army wife, in Sardis:
Some say a cavalry corps,
some infantry, some, again,
will maintain that the swift oars
of our fleet are the finest
sight on dark earth: but I say
that whatever one loves, is.
FROM: To an Army Wife, in Sardis, (150), Poem, Greece
- Christian Cameron (1)
- IN: Poseidon's Spear (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
On the face of the black earth, but I say
It's what one loves.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Victor Lodato (1)
- IN: Edgar & Lucy (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is no place for grief in a house that serves the muse.
FROM: NULL, (-600), NULL, Greece