Maitena

“Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

- Rain”
― Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems

“German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were born and you didn't notice it.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis