Top 97 Indian Authors Quotes
#1. From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.
Joseph Bruchac
#2. The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.
Anurag Shourie
#3. I want to have a romance so grand,
it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.
Sanober Khan
#4. fierce lovers.
and battle warriors
both come
from the same place.
there is bound
to be,
some bloodshed.
Sanober Khan
#5. sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me.
Sanober Khan
#6. i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June.
Sanober Khan
#7. Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest
English Translation:
The creaking of the chain of Majnun is the orchestra of the lovers,
To appreciate its music is quite beyond the ears of the wise.
Amir Khusrau
#8. a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.
Sanober Khan
#9. i am permanently
tanned
in the summer of poetry.
Sanober Khan
#10. I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
Of home.
Sanober Khan
#11. Every time you think of your dad, you're
resurrecting him. Why shouldn't he continue to live
in this world while resting in the other?
Clyde DeSouza
#13. give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in.
Sanober Khan
#14. Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the universe.
Sanober Khan
#15. may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to.
Sanober Khan
#16. all my life
i have looked for poems
to elope with.
Sanober Khan
#17. When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.
Udai Yadla
#19. words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin.
Sanober Khan
#20. Farsi Couplet:
Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.
English Translation:
If there is a paradise on earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this
Amir Khusrau
#21. all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots.
Sanober Khan
#22. and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.
Sanober Khan
#23. I breathe in...
the fragrance
of love, and moist sand
the one
his roses left
on both my hands
I just keep on breathing
every moment
as much as I can
preserving it, in my body
for the day
it can't.
Sanober Khan
#24. when whispered
what an exquisite
song, it makes-
your name.
Sanober Khan
#25. This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.
Sanober Khan
#26. savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream.
Sanober Khan
#28. love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers
Sanober Khan
#29. a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow.
Sanober Khan
#30. They think the recipe for a 'home-maker' is- a woman who isn't smart enough, lacks skills and above all isn't ambitious enough! Well she is every bit as smart as the woman who puts on a suit to go to work in a man's world to prove- times have changed! She is every bit as intelligent!
Mrinalini Mitra
#31. No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
S. Alice Callahan
#32. everything that is scattered
comes together in words
everything that is lost
comes back in poetry.
Sanober Khan
#34. I live there...
where the birds are infinite
everywhere
where they flee
it's a place your eyes can wander
but never see
Where everyone accepts me,
Without any pretense
It's a place your mind can picture
but never really comprehend.
Sanober Khan
#35. leave me some music
that's chocolate
for the heart.
Sanober Khan
#36. poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.
and changes
its composition.
Sanober Khan
#37. I live there...
Far above the song-filled clouds,
where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare
I live there.
Sanober Khan
#38. most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more
you
or
your memory.
Sanober Khan
#39. What you are trying to let go of
...is already gone.
Sanober Khan
#40. In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.
Sameer Kamat
#41. If I began to draw
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate.
Sanober Khan
#43. kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me
when my heart cries out
a song of thanks
to yours.
Sanober Khan
#44. One clear moment, one of trance
One missed step, one perfect dance
One missed shot, one and only chance
Life is all...but one fleeting glance.
Sanober Khan
#45. the ocean mist
engulfs me, like a lifetime's
friendship honored.
Sanober Khan
#46. You touched my heart...ever so softly
and I realized
tears had never been...merely salt
and the rain
Oh the Rain!
had never been merely water.
Sanober Khan
#47. some poems froth
and foam and rise...
out of my morning cup of
mist-sweetened coffee.
Sanober Khan
#49. some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other.
Sanober Khan
#50. when i speak to you
i speak as though
i am offering a rose
in your hand.
Sanober Khan
#51. what is
more beautiful
tears, in someone's eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them.
Sanober Khan
#52. I'm sorry that I hurt you."
"You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind of Indian you were. But what hurts me most is to know what kind of man.
Tony D'Souza
#54. You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?
Renita D'Silva
#55. Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain.
Sanober Khan
#56. Poetry keeps me
in a highly drunken state
of divinity.
Sanober Khan
#57. i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words
i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears.
Sanober Khan
#58. for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands
those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.
Sanober Khan
#59. Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
Sanober Khan
#60. My life had indeed become meaningless to me. Even lack of sleep was not a concern for me; only hunger remained a sensation worthy of articulation. Once that hunger was assuaged, I would return to my inert state.
Ashokamitran
#61. there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind
while some just live
silently
in the heart
crumble, sometimes
dwindle
disappear
die
and are reborn
when you smile again.
Sanober Khan
#62. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#63. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.
Sanober Khan
#64. Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...
as orchids
blooming in clouds.
Sanober Khan
#65. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.
Sanober Khan
#66. You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.
Sanober Khan
#67. i can't always tell
what's better
long drives
in the star-spangled deserts
or long walks
along winding tea gardens.
Sanober Khan
#68. A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade..
Himmilicious
#69. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.
Sanober Khan
#70. Once in a while i am struck
all over again... by just how blue
the sky appears .. on wind-played
autumn mornings, blue enough
to bruise a heart.
Sanober Khan
#71. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.
Sanober Khan
#73. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
Sanober Khan
#74. violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
Sanober Khan
#75. I believe I did succeed in making Indian uslims look upon me as a friend: when I was nominated to be a member of the Rajya Sabha many said, "We have another Muslim in Parliament." Others who disliked my views called me an unpaid agent of Pakistan. I treated both views as compliments.
Khushwant Singh
#76. I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes
I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might
I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined
I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time.
Sanober Khan
#77. i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother's arms.
Sanober Khan
#78. May you
always have
open
breezy spaces
in your mind.
Sanober Khan
#80. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
#81. There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.
S. Alice Callahan
#82. Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.
Anurag Anand
#83. Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends.
Sanober Khan
#84. The monsoons were the real thing; they dissolved things to the bone.
Anjum Hasan
#85. I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals
not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.
Sanober Khan
#86. the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul.
Sanober Khan
#87. it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants
so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty.
Sanober Khan
#88. When it's possible for you to dream, it's not impossible to achieve.
Udai Yadla
#89. A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities.
Ashwin Sanghi
#90. i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.
Sanober Khan
#91. love can
embellish its beginning
sing its blossoming
and engrave its eternities
but can never
explain its loss.
Sanober Khan
#92. I uttered the wisest thing that you must say to an angry woman - "I'm sorry.
Mita Jain
#93. Watch, how the sun
slowly rises
from behind my ear
new lines, new countries
spring up in my palms
my rough hair
become swaying silk
and all the leaves
in my body
become lusher than fruits.
Sanober Khan
#94. I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!
Gayathri Jayakumar
#95. you were
and always will be
that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees
that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories.
Sanober Khan
#96. Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.
Sanober Khan
#97. If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!
K. Hari Kumar
