Matthew Compton

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We the mortals touch the metals,
the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,
knowing they will go on, inert or burning,
and I was discovering, naming all the these things:
it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”
― Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell