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“The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da dum Have you ever heard the sound a blessing makes? This is it. The first thing I ever saw...”
“Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.”
“Everything I have become,everything I will ever accomplishcannot compare to my mostimpressive feat:I have loved youfiercelyand assiduouslywith the very marrowinside my bones. So that when I die, th...”
“You just wait.Soon, lovers all over the worldwill be reciting poems dedicated to you.This is my promise.”
“Work. Good, honest work, whether its working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it...”
“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”
“Maybe love at first sight isnt what we think it is. Maybe its recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.”
“I open my eyes. I want to know:what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in these black caves that house bated breaths and unspoken words? Do our souls crawl on these tender cheeks to greet on...”
“My mind is being consumed by you.My body is longing for you. Just one touch or a kiss, And I shall be satiated for a thousand years.”
“Listen.Do you see that you cant hear snowfall?Look.Do you sensethat you cant see love?Touch.Do you graspthat you cant catch poems?Try.Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud.These material senses ...”
“Love, the exotic bird, came and went.Heart forgot love.Joy, the majestic willow, wept and died.Mind forgot joy.Hope, the basement lamp, fell and broke.Soul forgot hope.Self, the anxious caterpillar...”
“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”
“Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love.”
“We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold anothers handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But ...”
“Art doesnt give rise to anything in us that isnt already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.”
“We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word...”
“Poetry isnt an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isnt a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isnt swimming. Poetry is water.”
“It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.”
“There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.”
“These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!”
