“She is the island of artistic perfection where the lover of ancient beauty may yet find foothold.”

Presenting Sappho as a sustaining refuge and model for later artists · Essay, The Wise Sappho

• Beauty
• Influence
• Poetry

“I had never heard of vers libre until I was discovered by Ezra Pound.”

Recalling that her early poetic experiments preceded her knowledge of formal literary labels · Autobiographical recollection

• Influence
• Originality
• Poetry

“Sappho has become for us a name, an abstraction as well as a pseudonym for poignant human feeling.”

Reflecting on how a poet can become an enduring embodiment of human emotion · Essay, The Wise Sappho

• Emotion
• Influence
• Poetry