Top 100 Sanober Khan Quotes
#1. As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.
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#2. We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.
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#3. how can i ever
breathe normally again
after having been cradled
by the kind of sorrow
so silent, that it nourishes
after having been swept
by the kind of joy
so absolute, that it wounds.
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#4. I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think
of the fire
and frost of memories
of the everlastingness
of love
the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.
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#5. With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon
in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace
in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love.
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#6. 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.
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#7. An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.
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#8. i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother's arms.
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#9. May you
always have
open
breezy spaces
in your mind.
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#10. How strange and ironic it is-
all the words i long to say
are lost in words.
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#11. It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
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#12. we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it.
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#13. Fall in love
with the energy
of the mornings
trace your fingers
along the lull
of the afternoons
take the spirit
of the evenings
in your arms
kiss it deeply
and then
make love
to the tranquility
of the nights.
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#14. the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul.
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#15. i'm glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning sun.
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#16. Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends.
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#17. 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.
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#18. What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness?
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#19. violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
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#20. moonlight disappears down the hills
mountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry.
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#21. Look at
how deeply flawed
we are
and yet
capable of loving
so perfectly.
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#22. Do not turn me
into
restless waters
if you cannot promise
to be my stream.
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#23. my love
for you
will always be
like a mountain stream.
quiet.
persistent.
continuous.
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#24. 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.
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#25. May our twilights mix together
like breath and breathlessness.
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#26. Give me
a moon-blanket night
to keep me warm
a long-gone smile
to comfort me
a pair of rain-blue eyes
to haunt me
a simple soul
...to love me.
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#27. give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in.
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#28. Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the universe.
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#29. may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to.
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#30. tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you will get lost
in this
warm ocean
of my skin.
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#31. all my life
i have looked for poems
to elope with.
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#32. The magic fades too fast
the scent of summer never lasts
the nights turn hollow and vast
but nothing remains...nothing lasts.
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#33. words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin.
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#34. poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light.
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#35. the most
beautiful tide
is the sweep
of your heart
against mine.
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#36. all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots.
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#37. slow down, oh sweet tears
flowing nectar...down my lashes' tips
someday
someone will kiss you away,
even before you can reach my lips.
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#38. and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.
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#39. the nights would be orphaned
without the sound of crickets chirping.
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#40. Your words...
I hold them deep
like ancient skins
hold wrinkles.
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#41. A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds.
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#42. your gaze
across
my cheeks
turned them
into
strawberry fields.
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#43. I want you to crave
the crisp ocean breeze
as much as I do.
I want your soul to be
as rain-swept
as mine.
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#44. my dear,
we are all made of water.
it's okay to rage. sometimes
it's okay to rest. to recede.
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#45. 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.
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#46. my love is a winter's mist
gently dissolving
through the window
at the nape of your neck.
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#47. when whispered
what an exquisite
song, it makes-
your name.
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#48. This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.
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#49. kisses happen
when my morning
blueberry muffin
sails slowly
upon my savoring tongue.
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#50. fierce lovers.
and battle warriors
both come
from the same place.
there is bound
to be,
some bloodshed.
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#51. i can't always tell
what's better
long drives
in the star-spangled deserts
or long walks
along winding tea gardens.
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#52. the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close
and all will be
right again
in the world.
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#53. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.
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#54. Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...
as orchids
blooming in clouds.
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#55. holding
the evening
tremblingly close
to me
i weep
into
the sun
letting
the burden
of hope
lift off my chest
i realize
this is what
it means
to be free.
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#56. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.
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#57. I was coming together...
limb by limb, after being broken
for an infinity.
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#58. I want to read every book that's written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at every cloud
and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.
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#59. let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a violent rainstorm...
with no stream
no ocean vast enough
to flow into.
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#60. there is some aching
that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep.
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#61. You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.
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#62. there have been mornings
so quiet and tender
like a poem, on Thursday's lips
that I wondered
if I'd been kissed at all...
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#63. i am so crammed
full of fears
that if you were
to touch me
i might either
fly
or break.
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#64. when i speak to you
i speak as though
i am offering a rose
in your hand.
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#65. At the end of the day
all we ever need is
something
that helped
pass the time
and something
that keeps time from passing.
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#66. I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.
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#67. Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't.
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#68. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.
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#69. 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.
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#71. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.
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#72. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.
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#73. some winters
will never melt
some summers
will never freeze
and some things will only
... live in poems.
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#74. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
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#75. your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from.
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#76. Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain.
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#77. i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you.
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#78. love can
embellish its beginning
sing its blossoming
and engrave its eternities
but can never
explain its loss.
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#79. How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't.
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#80. 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.
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#81. be the kiss in my hair
that no one sees
move, when i move
sigh, when i sigh...
be that line from a poem
that i hold in my eyes.
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#82. 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.
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#83. poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-
of turning silence
into eloquence.
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#84. Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.
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#85. Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity.
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#86. what is
more beautiful
tears, in someone's eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them.
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#87. my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.
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#88. You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers.
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#89. this life
has been
a landscape
of pain
and still,
flowers
bloom in it.
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#90. Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.
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#91. Poetry keeps me
in a highly drunken state
of divinity.
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#92. i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words
i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears.
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#93. If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
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#96. you are
as fleetingly beautiful
as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks
a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood
a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.
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#97. stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt.
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#98. leave me a smile
just warm enough...
to spend a million
golden afternoons in.
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#99. i am either
a storm
or
a drought.
in-betweens
have never
been my thing.
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#100. 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.
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