Subarna Mohanty

“I am a little world made cunningly.”
― John Donne

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.”
― Alasdair Gray, Every Short Story, 1951-2012

“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
― John Donne