Tuesday, October 18, 2011

"Beat your breasts, maidens, and rend your tunics."

"I'm beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho. I've been reading her like mad, and no remarks, please." --J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey.
Well, now it's confirmed: I'm just a nice negligee away from being Franny Glass. I hate poetry but I just love Sappho. She expresses emotion in a way that I (a cool-headed prospective Neuroscience major) appreciate on a completely non-ironic level. Why is it that other poets can't express the way they feel with that kind of clarity. But she isn't harsh or scientific about it, she depicts love as simple, beautiful and true.
Thank you, Rites of Passage. You've finally done some good.

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