Chloé du Plessis

“Every inspirational article on failure talks about believing in yourself and bouncing back. But we don’t talk about what it feels like to not want to believe in ourselves anymore in the wake of a mistake. We don’t talk about what it feels like when it seems like we don’t deserve to get up off the floor and try again.”
― Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go

“In our rhythm of earthly life, we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain....”
― T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock”

“Every landscape has its own latent poetry.”
― Nancy Horan, Loving Frank

“But it was the work in a hall devoted to Picasso, from his harlequins to Cubism, that pierced me the most. His brutal confidence took my breath away.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids