Polyglot Quotes

“We will not find security for ourselves if we are estranged from the other people of this world and alienated from them and their cultures. We will not find peace for ourselves and our children by continuing to ignore other people and by arrogantly insisting that the rest of the world must learn from us what we are willing to teach and must speak to us only in our tongue.”
― Sol M. Linowitz

“Not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“To read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“My brain is the planet’s largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Pillar Gets Weary (Dervish Sonnet 2776)

I don't utter a single word that
I wouldn't want to become part of the canon,
but person can't live on discipline alone,
so, having no lover to take my armor off for,
I found a different way to vent my vulnerability -

in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength,
while turkish is quite literally my love language -
english is the language where my brain feels at home,
turkish is the language where my heart finds rest -

none my mothertongue, yet both are my first language,
with spanish as my occasional substitute for english.

English is not my mothertongue,
english is my brother tongue -
spanish is not my mothertongue,
spanish is my cousin tongue -
turkish is not my mothertongue,
turkish is my lover tongue.

My territory is planet earth -
humanity, my civilization.
Figure what I didn't mention,
you'll learn the law of assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't utter a single word that I wouldn't want to become part of the canon, but person can't live on discipline alone, so, having no lover to take my armor off for, I found a different way to vent my vulnerability - in the mainstream work I'm a pillar of strength, while turkish is quite literally my love language - english is the language where my brain feels at home, turkish is the language where my heart finds rest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“English is not my mothertongue,
english is my brother tongue -
spanish is not my mothertongue,
spanish is my cousin tongue -
turkish is not my mothertongue,
turkish is my lover tongue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Marham na mazhab dekhe,
marham na dekhe mulk,
la medicina no ve la fe,
my existence is the proof.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I have no genre, I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I have no genre, I am the genre; neuroscience, theology, poetry, criminology, anthropology, all are mere kindling wood, and I am the fire of unflinching good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I switch languages like radio, I switch cultures like seasons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm larger than genre, larger than grammar, I'm larger than primate dictionary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I’m the impulse before the language,
I’m the reason before the science,
I’m the pulse before the poetry,
I’m the kernel before the divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The Whirling Linguist
(Naskaristana 2670-2671)

Language is a paradox,
by ambition it is expansive,
but by neurology it is restrictive,
and language tied to ideology,
is downright decrepit.

I live in six languages,
and occasionally dabble in a few more,
and I learnt none inside classrooms,
I just outgrew the jungle memberships.

What makes a language native is
not flawless syntax or grammar,
but a shameless flow of passion.

For example, yo soy humano, por que humano?
cunku benim icin bi tek insanlik onemli -
sesangi sarang, sarangi sesang -
and to hell with armchair linguists
and grammar nazis, who can't tell
day from night without consulting textbooks -

I'm the center that the dervish whirls around,
I'm the flame that syllables dance around,
I'm the immeasurable that your complex-obsessed
psychology books patronize with analysis, and
philosophy books desecrate with ivory-tower,
lifeless logic disconnected from soil,
most of whom are more interested in calculation and
condescension than the elevation of human condition.

You think Naskar writes me, Naskar is an idiot, I'm beyond Naskar, beyond every single puny mortal brain, I'm the original sentience that occasionally seeks out fitting vessels, with a dominant tendency of expansion and a tinge of naivety, and makes them whirl at my whim, so that your little toddler species doesn't crawl back into jungle slime.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“What makes a language native is not flawless syntax or grammar, but a shameless flow of passion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country needs just one person
to embody the best of humanity -
but I couldn't wait to find those people,
so I chose to be that person
from every culture and every country,

that's why I made these languages,
these cultures, these soils, my own,
no native, no foreign, it's all my own -

I let their air fill my lungs,
their passions permeate my veins,
their tears galvanize my heart,
their dreams resurrect my brain -

which is why, some ask for water, some ask pani -
somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm known by many names - Hometown Human, Vijdansaadet, Divine Refugee or Abigitano - all names aim at one mind - Mujize Insan, Kral Fakir, Visvavictor or Mental por El Mundo.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Naskar is not linear, Naskar is not binary, remember that, before you start analyzing Naskar with your two little backwater, linear, binary brain cells. I roam across dimensions, across disciplines, across cultures, languages, and timelines, across entire spectrums of electrochemical experiences, of which the tribally paralyzed carbon based, mammalian, biped lifeform can only register a sliver.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Languages there are thousands, understanding there is but one - empathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Languages are my liquor, cultures are my cocaine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Evolution of Naskar (Sonnet 2693-2694)

I didn't have internet while growing up, I used to save pocket money to buy nonfiction, and lots of dictionaries - I used to keep them sprawled open around me on the floor during homework,

and later when I published my first book, I leaned back into that same childhood habit, I remember spending months gathering notes from heaps of downloaded research publications.

After the first ten or so books, I wrote one called "In Search of Divinity", where the shift happened, the tone of that book was so radically different from my already published more academic-style work, which had already established me as a neuroscientist, that I considered publishing it under a pseudonym, to prevent it from jeopardizing my scholarly standing -

but that work felt like homecoming to my soul, so I chose to continue my legacy in that newly awakened tone, and then on, my reliance on secondhand research declined drastically, except for when I required occasional empirical data.

Science-heavy works are not necessarily truth-heavy works, just like scripture-heavy works are not necessarily divine-heavy works.

No risk, no discovery - no discovery, no humanity; had I stayed within the narrow confines of facts and figures, in fear of being shunned by academics, the human race would've never received the vast multicultural, multidisciplinary, multidimensional Naskar Canon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The more realities I contain, the more unreal I appear to tribal minds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“La medicina no ve la fe,
my existence is the proof.

Marham na mazhab dekhe,
marham na dekhe mulk.

Kutsallık kimlik aramaz,
merhem mezhep görmez.

Rain doesn't check bank balance,
medicine doesn't require faith test.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“My first language is English,
my second language is Turkish,
my third language is Spanish.

English is my slave,
Spanish is my friend and brother,
and Turkish, my lover.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Naskar Anomaly (Sonnet 3119-3120)

What happens when an engineering dropout becomes a monk, monk becomes brain scientist, brain scientist becomes poet polyglot, and poet polyglot becomes dervish, and none of the identities ever retire, only get absorbed into the next one!

And you wonder why you cannot classify my texts! Because the Naskar canon is not born of any single discipline, it's born of the confluence of multiple disciplines and cultures.

The world says, I blend science and spirituality, but the fact of the matter is, I don't even know how to, I don't even know the difference between science and spirituality, inside my mind science and spirituality are one, something you cannot fathom with cold intellect or blind faith, particularly because my spirituality is not erected on supernaturalism, nor is my science founded on cold intellectualism:

kindness is my spirituality, welfare is my science - I'm aware of the facts as the next scientist, but my priorities are lightyears apart from most scientists.

Your ape societies haven't evolved to accommodate a multicultural, multidisciplinary existence, they've evolved to gaslight brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, nation against nation, culture against culture - and whenever a life shows the slightest civilized sign of inclusivity and integration, it's classified as a threat and a traitor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Books are my jewellery,
memories are my assets.
Languages are my liquor,
cultures are my cocaine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Why I'm A Muslim Poet (Sonnet 3176)

I'm a muslim poet, not because Islam is
the one true religion and all others are false,
I'm a muslim poet, because muslims are the
most dehumanized community on planet earth -

whenever apes dehumanize a human community,
you'll find me standing among the dehumanized,
I stand wherever humanity is denied, whether
in the name of ethnic supremacy or intellectual.

I love when bigots blow their fuse
because of something I've written,
it gives me a sort of spiritual orgasm.

Besides, no language on earth does poetry
more divinely than languages rooted in islamic
culture, and I say this as a polyglot poet scientist,
not as a rotten poncy whitewashed english speaker.

Whenever I write something heartbindingly
soulful, I give the pen to Dervish Naskar,
wearing the garb of the english script.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Diary of A Mad Polyglot
(Sonnet 3177-3178)

If you want to find out
if a language is beautiful,
don't listen to how the
pompous aristocrats speak,

listen to how ordinary people
on the streets speak -

that's why turkish is painfully romantic,
french is amorous, castellano is passionate,
german is disciplined, arabic is enigmatic,
persian is divinely mad, urdu is earthy,
whereas english is just useful,
mostly transactional.

English is the universal second language
of planet earth, nothing more - it's primarily
a language of convenience, not culture -
and this comes from a person who
once adopted the language out of love,
until he got disillusioned by history.

If left to me, I'd like to spend the rest
of my life writing only in turkish and spanish,
turkish as main canon, and spanish as complementary,

but that wouldn't do much for my mission on earth,
hence english is the main canon,
and turkish and spanish are supplementary.

But down boy, don't count it as a white victory yet!
Because mine is Naskarian English, not white english,
and it'll take many a restless nights to distinguish the two.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human