Masaan Quotes & Sayings

Self-Portrait at Twenty"

I stood inside myself
like a dead tree or a tower.
I pulled the rope
of braided hair
and high above me
a bell of leaves tolled.

Because my hand
stabbed its brother,
I said: Make it stone.

Because my tongue
spoke harshly, I said:
Make it dust.
And yet
it was not death, but
her body in its green dress
I longed for. That's why
I stood for days in the field
until the grass turned black
and the rain came. — Gregory Orr

The problem with military policies that are built to domestic specifications and do not take into account the complexity of the real world is that eventually the real world intrudes. — David Halberstam

My name is Marillion," the singer said, plucking a string on his woodharp. "Doubtless you've heard me play somewhere? — George R R Martin

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects. — Big Pun

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard. — Vikram Seth

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. — Charles Jencks

I smell her all over you, get out and pretend I died just as you did when you lied down with her. Aaliyah/Totured Soul — Kyra Gates

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. — Arthur Miller

You were right," I whisper. He sighs and I feel the air softly blow the back of my neck. He holds me tighter around my middle and buries his head into my back, his lips just barely touching the skin left exposed from my tank top. "I wish I wasn't. — Kandi Steiner

I wouldn't say I'm the best," she said, "but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say. — Terry Pratchett