: Re: There is too much beauty in this picture I can persevere I don't know if this is the right place to ask these kind of questions. I am not a native English speaker but I am not at the

@Debbie451

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I understand what you're asking, but in this particular sentence it doesn't quiet capture what you're attempting to say.
Right now you have two independent clauses:

There is too much beauty in this picture.
I can persevere.

Each one expresses an individual thought and is a grammatically complete sentence on its own. However, when you combine those sentences you're creating a compound sentence, and in such you need something to link those two clauses together.
There are many different ways to do create compound sentences in formal writing, and even more ways to create compound sentences in informal/creative writing.
In addition, if you're writing something like poetry, the rules of grammar can become even more disjointed and confusing (in many cases you don't even have to follow them!)
So, grammatically, that sentence doesn't make a lot of sense to the reader just because of how it is presently formed. However, that doesn't mean you can't use the word persevere in the manner you're attempting to. In fact, the way you are attempting to use it (as a figurative crisis/struggle) is almost certainly possible.
Here are some ways you might form the sentence to make it more understandable:

There is too much beauty in this picture; I can persevere.
Use a semi-colon to connect the two clauses, denoting that they are independent clauses but closely linked, also allowing the reader to pause between the two statements and create some dramatic tension.

Treat it like a work of poetry and use a line break to separate the clauses:

There is too much beauty in this picture.
I can persevere.

Treat it like a regular sentence with a comma to combine the two clauses:

There is too much beauty in this picture, I can persevere.
This one essentially says "there is too much beauty in this picture, and I can persevere.

In any case, your metaphorical/figurative use of persevere is just fine. You might just consider how you want to convey this to your audience/in which medium you will convey it, as that will drastically affect how you'll structure the sentence/line/clause, etc.
Hope this gives you some help.

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