Desire Splits Your Soul

Desire Splits Your Soul



What makes Sappho’s insight so profound is her understanding that desire isn’t a progression from sweet to bitter – it’s both sensations striking simultaneously. As contemporary scholar Anne Carson notes, it’s an “instantaneous collision of opposing forces”.

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