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'taking up her lyre... she struck its trembling chords that they might tearfully beat in unison with the conflicting and torturing emotions of her troubled soul'
''a woman of a warm poetic temperament, of great lyric power, of voluptuous yearnings, and of many moral short-comings'
'the rose-like fragrance of her wasted feelings'

Mountford

'for centuries, Sappho's death has been the most well-known part of her life and became famous as women began to claim their right to freedom, serving as a warning to bold women'

Davidson

Sappho's poems are 'worth reading again in slow motion'

Lefkoqitz

many critics of Sappho believed 'women poets are emotionally disturbed, so their poems are psychological outpourings, that is, not intellectual but ingenuous artless, concerned with their inner emotional lives'

Freeman

'emphasis on bridal virginity as a form of masculine oppression against younger women, lest they enjoy their own sexuality and thus reduce their value as a commodity to a future husband' (Greece)