A.A. Patawaran

Quotes

• “Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don'...”
• “The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and ther...”
• “To read a poemIs to see light where there is darknessIs to hear silence where there is noiseIs to dance where there is n...”
• “Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostr...”
• “I can't remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar ...”
• “But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our pla...”
• “Does my soul sufferWhen my body breaks downWhen I feel mortalWhen my body is weakDoes the soul rejoiceThe end is near”
• “No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams”
• “Blank pages are cruelPure torture in white or beigeBut how else to start”
• “Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”
• “I read for pleasureIn search of fictional worldsTo enrich my truths”
• “I exaggerateThere is a lie in my truthLook! My soul is blue”
• “I crouch in cornersThe infection is widespreadLove epidemic”