“The world has suffered no greater literary loss than the loss of Sappho's poems.””
Quotes by John Addington Symonds
“No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.””
“To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young people who were buried there, one might, if one were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep.””
“The agony of this struggle between self-yielding to desire and love, and self-scourging by a trained discipline of analytic reflection, breaks his nerve. The only exit for a soul thus plagued is suicide.””
John Addington SymondsJohn Addington Symonds was an influential English poet, literary critic, and cultural historian whose work significantly shaped the understanding of the Renaissance. He is best known for his extensive...