The last time I saw my grandmother, she said to me: ‘We just barely learn how to live, and then we’re ready to die.’
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The last time I saw my grandmother, she said to me: ‘We just barely learn how to live, and then we’re ready to die.’
“O my mountain hyacinth
What shepherds trod upon you
With clumsy, rustic foot?
Now you are a broken seal:
A scarlet stain upon the earth.”
Sappho | Fragment 105(c), tr. Anita George