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“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”
― Alok Mishra

tags: criticism, dr-alok-mishra, literary-style, literature, poems, poetry, thoughts-on-writing, writing, writing-advice

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“Criticism that thrives on exaggeration or selective reading ultimately undermines its own credibility.”
― Alok Mishra

tags: academic-research, dr-alok-mishra, english-literature, literary-criticism, literary-quotes, literary-theory, literary-thoughts, reading, writing

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“Time has wasted itself
doing absolutely nothing!
I only wish it could turn back
and bring
me another opportunity
to experience and see,
fathom and breathe,
live with her and leave
the world on its own,
that night of passionate solitude.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death

tags: dr-alok-mishra, hindu-philosophy, indian-author, indian-poetry, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, romantic-poetry, spiritual-quotes, thoughtful-poetry

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“Poetry, today, is struggling for its space. Poets are writing poems. Readers are not reading poems. Other poets are reading other poets’ poems. They seldom like or appreciate what others write. Poetry, therefore, has turned itself into an unresolving cycle of paradox!”
― Alok Mishra

tags: criticism, dr-alok-mishra, poem, poetry, poetry-quotes, reading, thoughts-on-writing, writing

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“No heartbreak can make a poet!
Poetry doesn’t stem from a broken heart
which fell apart
merely because someone left
and left a few marks to be felt,
dealt with and smelt
with emptiness and shallowness
of the breast.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death