And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere in the space in-between 	 we think we once found a truth; and the eternal part of us desires  to share this truth at all costsonly it's never quite how we pictured it,  and it's never quite received the way we wantand the paint drips with our own blood the handles of our brushes are our own bonesour own tears become the words to our most beautiful love songs and we know we'll never get it right before we die-getting up every morning and facing our own limited truth is a courage so divine  most men quell and women stay enslaved in silence.
Marie Anzalone, A Pilgrimage in Epistles: Pems as Letters and Observations
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