Adam

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson