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Nick Cave has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that…
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that…
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should…
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have…
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts.…
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In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down…
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I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind…
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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
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Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
— Robert Browning
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
— Cesare Pavese
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians…
— Aristotle
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but…
— Erica Jong
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Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.
— Jeanette Winterson
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great…
— Mercedes Lackey
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You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly…
— Nick Cave
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But…
— C.S. Lewis
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets…
— Anne Carson
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I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion.…
— Erica Jong
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