A Fragment of Corinna's Poetry
| ἐπί με Τερψιχόρα [ καλὰ Ϝεροῖ’ ἀισομ[έναν Ταναγρίδεσσι λε[υκοπέπλυς μέγα δ’ ἐμῆς γέγ[αθε πόλις λιγουροκωλυ[ς ἐνοπῆς. (fr. 2) |
Terpsichore me lovely old tales to sing to the white-robed women of Tanagra |
Read more about this topic: Corinna
Famous quotes containing the words fragment, corinna and/or poetry:
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Then came Corinna in a long loose gown,
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down,
Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed,”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)