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Before They Were Mothers

by Sappho

Sappho

Before they were mothers
Leto and Niobe
had been the most
devoted of friends




Quotes of the Day

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
• Jose Ortega y Gasset


Poems of the Day
  • Elizabeth Bishop
    The Monument
    by Elizabeth Bishop
    Now can you see the monument? It is of wood built somewhat like a box. No. Built like several boxes in descending sizes one above the other. Each is turned half-way round so that