For many of us, the run-up to Valentine’s Day is spent ... Sappho knew this even 2,600 years ago. Women are the objects of desire in her erotic poetry. These lines are a surviving fragment ...

Here are our favorite Valentine's Day quotes ... Other books in that era targeted women, with suggestions for romantic poems, as well as tips for turning away unwanted suitors.

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s ... “There was a woman/ I made love to and I remembered how ...