Find me a good model for the bust of the Sappho I am to restore.

A thousand gadflies are buzzing in my brain--I am so tremendously excited! What I am planning now will come to something!'" Balbilla, as she spoke the last words, tried to mimic a man's deep voice, and seeing the Empress smile she went on eagerly.
"It all came out so fresh, from a heart full to bursting of happy vigorous creative joy, that it quite fired me, and we all went up to the screen and begged the sculptor to let us see his work." "And you found ?" asked Sabina.
"He positively refused to let us into his retreat," replied the praetor; "but Balbilla coaxed the permission out of him, and the tall young fellow seems to have really learnt something.

The fall of the drapery that covers the Muse's figure is perfectly thought out with reference to possibility--rich, broadly handled, and at the same time of surprising delicacy.

Urania has drawn her mantle closely round her, as if to protect herself from the keen night-air while gazing at the stars.

When he has finished his Muse, he is to repair some mutilated busts of women; he was fixing the head of a finished Berenice to-day, and I proposed to him to take Balbilla as the model for his Sappho." "A good idea" said the Empress.