Aimen Rahman

“I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom.”
― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway