Metacatarsis

“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
― Hunter S. Thompson , The Rum Diary

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”
― Charles Bukowski