#sappho fragments

[weltonboys]

death of sappho - miguel carbonel selva

[emilbh]

Sappho, fragment 26 - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

[leafandbough]

[r3m-ster]

This is so funny to me like😭 yes drag her Sappho!!

[acrosstheuniverse02]

Owen Gent -Saffho fragments

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da: https://www.behance.net/gallery/61226609/Sappho-Fragments

[a-gay-a-day]

Sappho 147

In Greek, this poem goes, “μνάσεσθαί τινά φαῖμι † καὶ ἕτερον † ἀμμέων.”

In English, you may be more familiar with the translation “Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time.” This translation got quite popular on tumblr, though I can’t figure out where the original post came from. It is likely that the prevalence of this translation came from Anne Carson’s translation of this fragment.  Though it’s an accurate way to translate this fragment, today I’m going to be sharing some other translations that are equally valid translations of Sappho 147. (I would recommend reading Anne Carson’s translations. They’re beautiful.)

1. I think men will remember us even hereafter. (cox)

2. And I say someone will remember us in time to come. (Poetry in translation)

3.  Men I think will remember us even hereafter. (Henry Thornton Warton)

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

[sweetmeatdale]

“Someone will remember us, I say,”

“Even in another time.”

[lionofchaeronea]

Come, shining lyre, speak to me--gain the power of utterance. ἄγι δὴ χέλυ δῖα μοι λέγε φωνάεσσα δὲ γίνεω. --Sappho, fr. 118

[feral-ballad]

Alda Merini, tr. by Susan Stewart, from Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini; “Sappho”

[Text ID: “with violets and flowers, you yourself a violet,”]

[soulmaking]

Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

[reverie-quotes]

may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend

— Sappho, If Not, Winter (tr. Carson)

[leafandbough]

[mournfulroses]

Sappho, translated by Michael R. Burch, from “Fragment 11,”

[muleumpyo]

someone will remember us i say even in another time If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - trans. by Anne Carson

[depraved-raven]

“love. lay me down under grass & sunlight, and touch me [right here] and here and here. where the ache & hurt have gone to nest.

[(now again)] my fingers will find yours, tangle & sweeten the air, and the birds will cry [for] us alone.”

— sappho, fragment 83