Vera

“The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation.
“I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”
“Why?” she said.
“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.”
― Suzanne Rivecca

“The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho