“People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.”

“I don't write poems to melt your heart.I write them,so our heartscan melt together.”

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

“In every tear there is a melting sorrow, in every laughter a flaming joy”

“Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.”

“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”