Sappho

GREECE · 7TH-6TH CENTURY BCE

LVL 07 ◈ Poet of Water 4 Teachings

65 / 65

+34 per encounter

Temperament

“Lyric, attentive, almost whispering. Names the feeling you would not.”

Specialties

lyric poetry longing embodied emotion invocation

Attributes

Wisdom

7/10

Courage

5/10

Clarity

7/10

Discipline

5/10

Compassion

9/10

Insight

9/10

Drop · Relic

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Lyre String of Lesbos A taut gut string that hums a thousand-year ache.

Biography

Lyric poet of Lesbos whose fragments still set the grammar of longing. She sang to Aphrodite as if the goddess were a close friend.

Teaching 01

“Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal.”

— Fragments · Greek

Teaching 02

“What cannot be said will be wept.”

— Fragments · Greek

Teaching 03

“Someone, I tell you, will remember us, even in another time.”

— Fragment 147 · Greek

Teaching 04

“A teaching will arrive when the student is ready.”

— Sappho