From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious. - Sappho

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Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

Sappho

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

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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

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

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What cannot be said will be wept.

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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

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Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.

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My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

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What is the son but an extension of the father?

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I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

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