Stuti Govil

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau