“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
rainy day in paris // 2019
the world is spinning faster and I'm here seated, writing.
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.
-John Keating; Dead Poets Society
“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan
The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,
To feel that we exist,
Even in pain.
-Lord Byron
23.12.19 Manchester
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde
they are the dusk that first kisses my cheek, their words a haunting ode to a lost goddess; ancient letters adorn the poems they’ve writtten and i consume each syllable feverishly, searching for my likeness within the epigram of their secret love
ig: rosenaufsuden