Indian Poets Quotes & Sayings

poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.

and changes
its composition. — Sanober Khan

You are the ocean to my eyes. — Sanober Khan

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to. — Sanober Khan

If I began to draw
myself away from you

we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan

Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear

new lines, new countries
spring up in my palms

my rough hair
become swaying silk

and all the leaves
in my body
become lusher than fruits. — Sanober Khan

i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings. — Sanober Khan

I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail. — Jade Parker

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind. — Tony Dungy

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it. — Kami Garcia

Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain. — Sanober Khan

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read. — Sanober Khan

Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mix in politics." he says. And I tell him that when you are a Christian and profess that God is almighty, there is no single area of life from which you can eliminate God. -From the diary of Diet Eman — Diet Eman

You touched my heart...ever so softly
and I realized
tears had never been...merely salt

and the rain
Oh the Rain!
had never been merely water. — Sanober Khan

It was a witty fiction of the poets, that when Mercury had cast Argus into a sleep and with an enchanted wand closed his eyes, he then killed him. When Satan has by his witcheries lulled men asleep in sloth, then he destroys them. Some report that while the crocodile sleeps with its mouth open, the Indian rat gets into its belly and eats up its entrails. So while men sleep in security they are devoured. — Thomas Watson

words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin. — Sanober Khan

A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account. — Sanober Khan

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. — John Piper

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan

it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants

so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty. — Sanober Khan

i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June. — Sanober Khan

You ask
if I will write a poem
I could,
I suppose
write the most
splendiferous
one of all

but not
right
now
not when

your hands
are brewing
warm
cinnamon tea
across my skin

not when I'm
trying to imagine
what might happen
if you began
flowering
kisses
upon
me

My dear,
how can
I write
a poem
when I'm already
inside one? — Sanober Khan

There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer and Ossian even can never revive in London or Boston. And yet behold how these cities are refreshed by the mere tradition, or the imperfectly transmitted fragance and flavor of these wild fruits. If we could listen but for an instant to the chaunt of the Indian muse, we should understand why he will not exchange his savageness for civilization. Nations are not whimsical. Steel and blankets are strong temptations; but the Indian does well to continue Indian. — Henry David Thoreau

give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in. — Sanober Khan

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track. — Kevin Systrom

Someday your child will be full of wants. What they'll want more than anything, whether they know it or not, is for you to cherish them. — Peter Geye

What you are trying to let go of
...is already gone. — Sanober Khan

I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart. — Sanober Khan

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause? — Dorothy L. Sayers

I live there...

where the birds are infinite
everywhere

where they flee
it's a place your eyes can wander
but never see

Where everyone accepts me,
Without any pretense

It's a place your mind can picture
but never really comprehend. — Sanober Khan

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

AS their peculiar perfume is the chief association with spices, so sorcery is allied in every memory to gypsies. And as it has not escaped many poets that there is something more strangely sweet and mysterious in the scent of cloves than in that of flowers, so the attribute of inherited magic power adds to the romance of these picturesque wanderers. Both the spices and the Romany come from the far East - the fatherland of divination and enchantment. The latter have been traced with tolerable accuracy, If we admit their affinity with the Indian Dom and Domar, back to the p. 2 threshold of history, or well-nigh into prehistoric times, and in all ages they, or their women, have been engaged, as if by elvish instinct, in selling enchant. merits, peddling prophecies and palmistry, and dealing with the devil generally ill a small retail way. As it was of old so it is to-day - Ki shan i Romani - Adoi san' i chov'hani. Wherever gypsies go, There the witches are, we know. — Charles Godfrey Leland

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do. — Steve Guttenberg