Frases de Safo
Safo
Fecha de nacimiento: 630 a.C.
Fecha de muerte: 570 a.C.
Safo de Mitilene, también conocida como Safo de Lesbos o simplemente Safo, fue una poetisa griega de la época arcaica. Más tarde los comentaristas griegos la incluyeron en la lista de los «nueve poetas líricos». Platón la catalogó como "la décima Musa".[1]
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poetisaFrases Safo
„Some say cavalry and others claim
infantry or a fleet of long oars
is the supreme sight on the black earth.
I say it is
the one you love. And easily proved.
Didn't Helen, who far surpassed all
mortals in beauty, desert the best
of men, her king,
and sail off to Troy and forget
her daughter and her dear parents? Merely
Aphrodite's gaze made her readily bend
and led her far
from her path. These tales remind me now
of Anaktoria who isn't here,
yet I
for one
would rather see her warm supple step
and the sparkle in her face than watch all
the chariots in Lydia and foot soldiers armored
in glittering bronze.“
— Sappho
The Willis Barnstone translations, Supreme Sight on the Black Earth, Fragment 16 Voigt
„The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.“
— Sappho
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 72
„Eros has shaken my mind,
wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks“
— Sappho
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 26
„O dream on your black wings
you come when I am sleeping.
Sweet is the god but still I am
in agony and far from my strength.
for I had hope (none now) to share
something of the blessed gods,
nor was I so foolish
as to scorn pleasant toys.
Now may I have
all these things.“
— Sappho
The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream, Fragment 63 Voigt
„A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.“
— Sappho
The Willis Barnstone translations, Exhortation to Learning, Fragment 50 Voigt
„Look at him, just like a god,
that man sitting across from you,
whoever he is,
listening to your
close, sweet voice,
your irresistible laughter
And O yes,
it sets my heart racing—
one glance at you
and I can't get any words out,
my voice cracks,
a thin flame runs under my skin,
my eyes go blind,
my ears ring,
a cold sweat pours down my body,
I tremble all over,
turn paler than grass.“
— Sappho
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 20
„If you are my friend, stand up before me
and scatter the grace that's in your eyes.“
— Sappho
The Willis Barnstone translations, To a Handsome Man, Fragment 138 Voigt
