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Now consider trying to write a lyric poem, with everyone from Sappho to Tennyson to Frost to Plath to Verlaine to Li Po looking over your shoulder.† (source)
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Ms. Rose winked and slipped me her personal copy of Sappho Leap.† (source)
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I had only met her briefly during my orientation week, but I remembered her name was Sappho.† (source)
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From the Greek Sappho, a lady poet who enjoyed the love of other women.† (source)
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Sappho.† (source)
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I think I'm beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho.† (source)
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He was tempted to quote her Sappho; but that was for Kathleen.† (source)
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Both Sappho and Claudee's daddy was white, but not Creole white.† (source)
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Moreover, if you consider any great figure of the past, like Sappho, like the Lady Murasaki, like Emily Brontë, you will find that she is an inheritor as well as an originator, and has come into existence because women have come to have the habit of writing naturally; so that even as a prelude to poetry such activity on your part would be invaluable.† (source)
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In the dialect of Blodgett College but with the voice of Sappho was Carol's answer: "Of course.† (source)
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Alphonse Daudet had come also, and he had given her a copy of Sappho: he had promised to write her name in it, but she had forgotten to remind him.† (source)
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A Madame Sappho would have called him a pig; a Shakespeare would have said " my merry child;" old, drinking Caryoe thought him a clever, successful business man.† (source)
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Sappho says they did enjoy themselves tremendously at your house last night.† (source)
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And they took it to themselves, so I made haste to repeat another, very sarcastic, well known to all educated people: Yes, Sappho and Phaon are we!† (source)
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—SAPPHO (H. T. Wharton).† (source)
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For he was not one of those gentlemen who languish after the unattainable Sappho's apple that laughs from the topmost bough—the charms which "Smile like the knot of cowslips on the cliff, Not to be come at by the willing hand."† (source)
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