senryu – man in the mirror = l’homme dans le miroir

senryu – man in his mirror = l’homme dans le miroir

man in the mirror
the image of himself
longing for light

image in the mirror 620

l’homme dans le miroir
l’image de lui-même
qui cherche la lumière

Richard Vallance


Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.

Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.

Marble statue of Sappho on side profile.

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