Poetic Cognition Quotes

“Poetry is the mightiest vessel for philosophy,
Poetry is the mightiest vessel for science.
Though I started out with prose,
I went through the poetic morph.
Now all my science is poetry,
all my poetry is philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“I stir in the glow of a brand new shine.
I row in the flow of a divine design.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“I will write you a sky where your heart can soar high
as the wings in my mind enable you to fly.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“The mountains are cast away with the other turmoils that melted your snowmen during your relapses into retrospect where the cat of your crossings jumped through its curious hoops while the flummoxed chicken ran around a pumpkin patch until it found the dirt that no rug could conceal for the shootout on the street that subsequently became a war in a chaotic dust storm on the porch of reflection.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“We escalate together through these sunsets to midnights where we ponder in the portions of the days that remain for us to analyze.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Reflections sometimes reveal faces that cause us to shop for masks, but the checkout is where those reflections decide how the walkout will be.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“We can’t fix the world, but we can individually step into it with a authenticity that allows us to witness the most beautiful sunrises, which in turn illuminates the scenery around us so that
others can see something more intangible to reach for in the midnight of themselves.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Are you so cynical of being that you would devour the good taste of originality only to regurgitate a characterization unfit for the placement in the treasures of integrity?”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Did you miss something as the fastball of compassion made its umpteenth pass by your bat of opportunity when you ran from, instead of took a swing at, being the hero in the field of slim pickings?”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“There you go again straightening your smile to wreck another dream into the walls of your maze as you close in on another vulnerable star shining too bright for your ego to stomach.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Now you’re a mere shadow puppet honking a horn in the traffic of your conscience while the parade of your dreams melts like a frozen lake that you placed your maze on while trapping yourself in the frenzy of a new same old day.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“There’s more to me than that image you often like to feed
to the preconception hogs that are too lazy to read.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“I’ve tried to keep my thoughts from the whirlwind in my mind
in order to discourse on a level more your kind.
But I just can’t seem to customize a pattern to relate
the content of your intellect to the produce in my freight.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Cross over a leg and chase the stars.
Lift your eyes to the poet’s sky.
Break your mentality out of the bars.
Teach your identity how to fly.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Tailor your visual to fit the impossible.
Prompt your heart to take a leap
with handfuls of thoughts that are compossible
with dreams that exist outside of your sleep.”
― Calvin W. Allison, Poetic Cognition

“Poetry Writes The Poet (The Sonnet)

The best poets are the ones,
Who don't know how to write poetry.
Just like the best scientists are those,
Who practice science as everyday curiosity.
The more you focus on the definition,
The more you lose touch with the essence.
That is why I never know what my work is about,
To explain love is to lose love's fragrance.
Painting of a landscape is not the landscape itself,
Depiction must never be confused with the depicted.
I don't know how to do small talk, hence the sonnets.
Poet doesn't write poetry, poetry writes the poet.
The moment I think I am in control, I lose all control.
Craving no control, the river just nourishes the soul.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Poet doesn't write poetry, poetry writes the poet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“The Himalayan Sonneteer

Anybody can be extraordinary,
If they are born into privilege.
But only the ones with no background,
Can exude the impossible radiance.
Some lights are far too bright,
For an amateur species to see.
Just like we can't hear above 20 kHz,
Humanity fails to fathom impossibility.
That's why they idolize artificial lights,
Because the sun is beyond comprehension.
If they ever stare straight at the sun,
They'll go blind for sure, there is no question.
So they celebrate little hills with skin-deep charisma,
While it takes the world centuries to fathom the Himalayas.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Poetry and Philosophy (The Sonnet)

Good poetry is but philosophy,
Good philosophy is but poetry.
It is only the majority amateurs,
Who insist on a divided duality.
Poetry is not about the rhyming,
Philosophy is not about profundity.
A warm philosopher is walking poetry,
A gentle poet is walking philosophy.
Poetry is the most potent form of philosophy,
As it brings illumination through simplicity.
Anybody can make things sound more complicated,
Only the best philosophers can write good poetry.
In philosophy, deeper we go, simpler things get.
Philosopher talks of light, poet swims in it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Poetry is the most potent form of philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Poet has no power over the muse,
It's the muse who powers the poet.
Best of poetry is an act of selfless care,
As the poet pens the pain through hopelessness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Poet has no power over the muse, it's the muse who powers the poet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“I am not a writer, I am an anomaly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Write from joy, you'll make five friends. Write from pain, the world will make you family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“No pain, no poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“I am not a poet,
I am a paradigm.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“I never studied linguistics,
Yet I became a linguistic enigma.
The sun never studied nuclear fusion,
Yet it is our planet's nuclear messiah.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Nature is poetry only a naturalist can fathom,
Science is poetry only a scientist can fathom.
Math is poetry only a mathematician can fathom,
Love is poetry only a lover can fathom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Broken poets are the only poets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets