Rahela

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us”
― Donna Tartt, THE SECRET HISTORY

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain