Suman Pokhrel Quotes

If I'd ever grown prosperous like Shah Jahan was,
I'd not have waited for my beloved's death
before I erected a Taj Mahal.

I have offered many of my self to you to get a single you.

Life incinerates incessantly trying to smile
and keeps broiling continuously
pretending to be alive.

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft
to be seated on children's eyes.

I wonder–
didn’t the Creator really do injustice? With a power to defeat everyone without any battle, children are busy at play with the most beautiful moments of their life.
Once they grow conscious of it, those moments will have gone away
never to return to them.

Someone asked me, 'Is there water in your pot?' I pointed to the leaves of a coconut tree.

I asked none
why life ends in ways uncertain.

Lampposts look in the glow of their defeated light robbed by the fog but cannot tell if the streets lying by stretching limbs in courtyards are sleeping face downwards or supine.

Every morning I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Poetry is part of our culture in many ways.

A good poem cannot be written with one's mind on the earth. Though one has to write poems about the earth and existence, one cannot write poems while staying grounded. To write an outstanding poem, a flight to the heights of transcendence is needed. However, a person cannot always remain in that elevated state. When one descends, they touch the earth and write ordinary stuff.

This evening, too
the Sun had to tell the same story
before he went away,
leaving the forlorn moon
hankering after his light.

Poetry is a potent tool capable of guiding societies worldwide through its invisible aesthetic strength.

I lived my youth in dreams of others.