Keesha Tappin

“Hear me and then consider: am not I
The keep and key
Of all the torments sorrow can combine?”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

“in despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.”
― Heraclitus

“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson