Poetic Truth Quotes

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with a detached attitude that readers will find relatable, possibly universal, and also long-lasting, if not everlasting.”
― Alok Mishra

“Our life story is a reflection of our internal poetry in motion, a poem which lyrical lines croons life as a groping accident, a playful roughness, a throbbing ordeal. Life’s posy permutations jell together to create a brawly emotional ambiguity. An interlacement of untidy paradoxes, fastened by a tincture of pyretic hopelessness, sounds the charming pitch of life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Unlike essayists whom write primarily to understand complex situations or convince other people of the righteousness of their opinions, poets strive to stir memories, provoke feelings, and evoke emotions. Poets do not write to reach that exalted perch where logic replaces feelings. Poets write about the connective tissue that makes us human, the poignant remembrances, hopes, fears, and emotions of humankind. It is not our ability to think standing alone that makes us human, but a mélange of incongruous feelings, emotional tidings that are virtually inexpressible.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“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

“Some days I survive by accident, not hope. The pain never stops—it just changes costume. And still, somewhere in the static, there’s a flicker of magic: not in healing, but in enduring. That’s the human condition—staying alive with no good reason, except that part of you refuses to vanish quietly.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Deny the venom can't kill you, it can.
Deny the bullets can't harm you, they can.
No one has fought Nature and came out glad.
If you can cheat Nature, you can cheat God.”
― Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“The difference between being liked and being tolerated is knowing your worth.”
― Therapeutic Poet

“Poetry makes the language, language makes no poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Never Ask (The Sonnet)

Never ask a poet,
Why they write what they write.
If they knew why they write,
No poetry will have any light.
Never ask a painter,
Why they paint what they paint.
If they knew why they paint,
All paint will turn bleak and faint.
Never ask a scientist,
Why they are curious the way they are.
If they knew the reason for their curiosity,
There wouldn't be any science, nor uplift's desire.
The drive for expression takes a million shapes,
When all combine without condescension we'll see God's face.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“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 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

“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

“Writing a poem is like losing yourself to nature, finding yourself with the words.”
― Hema Chhetri, Regrets-All you need to know one's true value

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

“Good poetry isn't born,
When everything makes sense.
Good poetry is born,
When nothing makes sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

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

“Can a poet no be brave? To write the heart's desires and present them, raw and bloody, to an uncaring audience is more terrifying than war!”
― Guy Haley, Valedor

“My most productive years are my loneliest years.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“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

“When air becomes breath,
and cells become sentient,
Words become poetry,
and facts become science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“During the first year I tried to write like an intellectual, until I realized, that's not me. So I abandoned the intellectual facade, and became unapologetically human in my writing, and I haven't looked back since.

The tone of 'In Search of Divinity' was so different that I even thought of publishing by a pseudonym. Today I am glad that I did not change my name, for the different new tone was the true voice of mine.

Monkey see, monkey imitate - Human challenge is to find yourself. Once you do, that's when you start to glow, Synthetic sparklers only drag you to descent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Monkey see, monkey imitate -
Human challenge is to find yourself.
Once you do, that's when you start to glow,
Synthetic sparklers only drag you to descent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“What is Poetry
(My Sonnet, My Rules)

Any gargoyle can google
the definition of a sonnet,
Any robot can write and
rhyme 14 lines of a sonnet.

Number of lines don't make sonnet,
Impeccable rhyme don't make poetry.
Critics, police and gatekeepers are
usually least capable of originality.

It's okay if it's few lines extra,
It's okay if it's couple lines less.
It's okay if it doesn't rhyme at all,
It's the soul that matters, not vessels.

You're welcome to your dead laws of poetry,
while I bring poetry to life, shaping society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

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

“Poetry is a way of life, and nobody knows the way better than those lost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Poetry is a way of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I wear my story like flame on bare skin.”
― Rita Kay, Her Fire Touched the Sky: Poems of Trauma, Survival, Healing, and the Quiet Rebuilding of a Soul