Fragment from the decorative apparatus of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santo Stefano, Musei Civici di Pavia, Italy.
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I wanna see and feel the galaxies that exist in your mind.
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The Eternal Wisdom of Sappho
BY KIRSTY STONELL WALKER
According to the Ancient Greek poet Alcaeus of Mytilene, “No man sings like a Lesbian singer.” A very progressive statement for 600 B.C., but he was actually speaking of the magic and beauty of the lyric poets of the island of Lesbos and, more particularly, of his contemporary Sappho. Possibly the most heralded singer-songwriter of pre-Christian times, Sappho is mainly remembered today for her love of the ladies, as so little of her poetry survives. Yet for a woman who literally gave her name to a euphemism for female gayness, she wrote an awful lot of lust poems about men as well and even apparently threw herself off a cliff because a man didn’t love her. All this complication leads me to Sappho’s unexpected heyday, the 19th century, where this magical Greek poet by necessity became all these things and more.
Let’s start with who Sappho was. As someone who lived around six hundred years before Christ, she didn’t leave a lot of personal information, but we know that she wrote lyric poetry that was intended to be sung with accompanying music and that her work was so popular that she was christened the “Tenth Muse.” Much of what we know about Sappho is inferred from her poems, as the earliest biography of her wasn’t written until nearly 800 years after her death. Most of her poetry is now lost, however, with only fragments....
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out of all the love languages there is, for me receiving gifts is placed at the bottom out of all. I’d rather spend time and be affectionate than receive fleeting objects… but if you give me an annotated book with a sweet dedication, then what are you waiting for? kiss me now
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Part 1
Steve was annoyed that he got stung on the mouth by a bee during their romantic picnic at the park. At first, it just made his lips tingle, but then they started to get puffy. He was trying to get some allergy medicine in before his eyes started to swell too. Steve scowled but softened when he thought about it. “Kiss it better for me, Eddie bear.”
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St. Michael's Cathedral (XV c.) - Alba Iulia, 2021
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Proyecto de universidad
Inspirado en pinturas de la época Románica
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Monestir de Poblet
Foto von Patrimoni. Generalitat de Catalunya. auf flickr
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Ya en mi web, nuevas fotos sobre el Camino de Santiago!
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