Sappho — Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time.
Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time.Sappho
Sappho, fragment 147
Written twenty-six centuries ago — and she was right. The line survived, and here you are, reading it. Few sentences have ever proved themselves so completely.
It is a quiet argument for making something carefully today. Words outlive the hands that shape them, and yours are no exception.
Words that widen the world
To keep in mind or recall from the past.
Synonyms: recall, retain, commemorate
Someone will remember these words.
To continue to exist over a long time.
Synonyms: last, persist, survive
Her poems endured for centuries.
Common questions
It expresses confidence that words and lives can outlast their own era and be remembered by future generations.
An ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, whose surviving work exists mostly as fragments.
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