Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear. - Sappho - Quotesmemo.com

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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

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Sappho

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

Air, Delicious, Hear, Mere

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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

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When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.

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You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Forget, Future, May, Thinking, Time

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Beautiful, Beauty, Long, Remain, Today

What cannot be said will be wept.

Said, Wept

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