Poetry Quote by Sanober Khan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“For it is up to you and me”

“i immerse”

“i'm glad to be alive”

“Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it.”

“Not words.”

“With callused hands”

“Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”

“خضراء أكتبها على نثر السنابل في كتاب الحقل ، قوّسها امتلاءٌ شاحبٌ فيها وفي. وكلما صادقت أو آخيت سنبلةً تعلّمت البقاء من الفناء وضده. أنا حبة القمح التي ماتت لكي تخضرّ ثانية وفي موتي حياةٌ ما”

“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.”

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”

“The Old Poets Of China”