Indian Poet Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. — Fred Hampton

I don't know who said it but, "The best revenge is to live a good life. — Roberta Gibson

To be successful you have to have imagination, enthusiasm, optimism, and conviction. — Debasish Mridha

There always seemed to be a link back from the word to the heart, and john felt it the moment he'd lost Maryssa. — Hanna Abi Akl

Pain, even though it hurt, made us stronger - if it didn't destroy us first. — D. Nichole King

But I say unto you which hear, aLove your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and apray for them which despitefully use you. — Anonymous

What is meant for you is always meant to find you. - Indian poet-saint Lalleshwari — Tosha Silver

A great poet must have the ear of a wild Arab listening in the silent desert, the eye of a North American Indian tracing the footsteps of an enemy upon the leaves that strew the forest, the touch of a blind man feeling the face of a darling child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness. — Henry David Thoreau

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them exist. There's just us and an ocean of darkness around us. I'm no philosopher or poet, how would I know the truth? It's true that all these gods seem to do awfully little work - much like our politicians - and yet keep winning reelection to their golden thrones in heaven, year after year. That's not to say I don't respect them, Mr. Premier! Don't you ever let that blasphemous idea into your yellow skull. My country is the kind where it pays to play it both ways: the Indian entrepreneur has to be straight and crooked, mocking and believing, sly and sincere, at the same time. — Aravind Adiga

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine. — Nick Lowe

The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it; no harm in letting a poet describe his vision, no need to question his geography. — R.K. Narayan

Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason. — Victor Hugo

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look! — Gayathri Jayakumar

Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted. — John Jay Chapman