Humanitarian Literature Quotes

“One week of my life produces enough electricity to power a hundred years of humanitarian intervention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Show me a spark of social responsibility, I shall turn it into humanitarian wildfire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Colonizer of A Different Kind
(The Sonnet)

Only the shape of colonialism
has changed, not the nature.
Tendencies are just as filthy,
rightful heir to animal disaster.

I too am a colonizer,
but of a different kind.
I colonize no home by force,
with words I colonize minds.

Humanitarianism is civilized colonialism -
simpler still, humanitarianism is civilization.
That's the contagion my literature carries,
through my proses and sonnetic revelation.

First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Failing to be American (The Sonnet)

I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment
of my early days of writing, but in vain.
Once you wake up to the vastness of the world,
it is impossible to revert to the tribal lane.

I broke into the world scene as a westerner but,
Naskar the American writer exists no longer.
Today Naskar is but an Earth philosopher,
There is only Naskar the Earth reformer.

In the early years when I wrote on America,
I used to write as an American writer.
Today when I write on any nation,
I write as an Earth writer.

The whole world is my diary,
I am the world's destiny.
Try as they might to maintain prejudice,
I am the line between humanity and nationality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“What I have written in ten years, will last for over 10,000 years.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am just the portal, cosmos is the writer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Quite often I lose count of my works,
Yet I've never had a fancy book launch.
I write in silence, I release in silence,
I have no relation to praise and applause.
I am the peak of humanitarian literature,
All without an ounce of support or award.
I am not a writer, I am world reformer,
My first concern is an integrated world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am the peak of humanitarian literature,
All without an ounce of support or award.
I am not a writer, I am world reformer,
My first concern is an integrated world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Miracle and Migraine (Sonnet 1370)

Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.

Kind words cost us nothing,
Cruel words will cost us all.
Faith in people costs us nothing,
Systemic mistrust will end us all.

It is common knowledge in the circle,
I don't control words, I get visions.
However, every miracle takes its toll,
Hence, the migraines are getting worse.

I don't mind, so long as I am ointment.
You keep the magic, I'll keep the pain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I don't do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction -
a record of resilience -
a record of thunder -
a record of sentience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Burn my books, and go lift the world!
Let me live in your blood, not in books.
Fetch your nerves and wield your backbone,
You are the cure to the paradigm of crooks.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Someone asked me the other day, do I like to write prose better or poetry? To which I can only say - both are fundamental to my works. In fact, I started out with prose, as you might remember - and my most invigorating ideas came to this world in the form of prose. Along the way, I felt a craving for poetry, so quite on a whim I wrote the first sonnet. Suddenly an entire new horizon opened up to me. Eventually prose and poetry became equally potent carrier of my ideas - they became complimentary to each other - they became supplementary to each other. However, I do admit, as I grow older, I'm getting more and more drawn towards poetry as my primary vessel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“My entire universe of work is a clarion call for acceptance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“I am justice to the activists,
Common sense to the scientists,
I'm illumination to philosophers,
I am existence to existentialists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't write to sell books, I write because my mind teeters on the edge of psychosis if I spend a single day without writing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't write to sell books,
I write because my mind succumbs
to psychosis, if I don't write.
I don't write to sell books,
I write because I fall to pieces, even
at the thought of not being able to write.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I am not a poetry factory, I am humanitarian poetry factory,”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I am not a poetry factory,
I am humanitarian poetry factory,
I'm not what's normally called poetry,
I'm a new paradigm of inoculating poetry.

I am inoculation against hate,
I am inoculation against rigidity.
In a world infested with etymologies,
I am living testament to impossible inclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Ideas Surpass Gold
(Sonnet 1530)

Most of my boldest ideas are
available online without paywall.
Which means, you don't need to pay,
to integrate my ideas into your life.

Since I don't have an industry behind,
it does help when you make a purchase.
But I never ask no one to buy my books,
I'd rather starve than monetize oneness.

Soon this body will surpass corporeal chains,
monetary demands of living will collapse a lie.
I mustn't stain my sacred life craving coins,
Ideas must surpass gold to surpass time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Don't memorize, live my sonnets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“My prose are call of the immeasurable,
My poetry are melody of the immeasurable.
My life is legacy of the immeasurable,
My sonnets are proof of the immeasurable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“I don't write to be seen,
I write so the world can see.
I don't write to be heard,
I write so you hear humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“In a civilized world I could spend my days writing mushy poetry, sparing the headache of human rights. But alas, that is not the case, hence, I'm restless, sleepless, vacationless, in kindling the human light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Pain Fuels My Pen (Sonnet)

When I started writing, I had a partner,
I had plans to settle in Sofia with her.
But then I lost my link to the Balkans, when
she grew weary and took the hand of another.

I couldn't write a single word for days,
but then, I let the god complex unleashed.
That's about when my writing skyrocketed,
as the heartbreak jolted my brain
into a hyper-publishing engine.

I had all the time in the world,
and enough pain to fuel my pen.
Every time I got my heart broken,
it benefitted my mission.

First time someone broke my heart,
I dropped out of engineering
and emerged as the Monk Scientist.
Second time when I lost my love,
Planet Earth received the Poet Apocalypse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“First time someone broke my heart, I dropped out of engineering and emerged as the Monk Scientist. Second time when I lost my love, Planet Earth received the Poet Apocalypse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“She grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn't write a single word for days, but then, I let the god complex unleashed. That's about when my writing skyrocketed, as the heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine. I had all the time in the world, and enough pain to fuel my pen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Why did my publishing output skyrocket around 2019? Put your conspiracy theories aside, I’ll tell you why. When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her. But then I lost my link to the Balkans, when she grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn’t write a single word for days, but then, I let the god complex unleashed. That’s about when my writing skyrocketed, as the heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine. I had all the time in the world, and enough pain to fuel my pen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“It's good that I don't know how to write, that's how I do my best writing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In the Naskar world, sonnet is not an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter, Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of civilization, indifferent to literary convention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat