Kuvempu: Earth

Kuvempu was Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker. Explore interesting quotes on earth.
Kuvempu: 22   quotes 12   likes

“In me is the sky, in me lies the earth.”

A couplet he wrote in Kannada, before writing his first full poem in the language.
Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)

“When Manmatha kissed Rati, blood from her lips may have spit on earth and blossomed into rose on the plant and kisses the viewer's eyes with its beauty now!”

The first is a poem on flowers translated from a Kannada poem, 'Poovu', and the second is linked mythological story and both are quoted in Poet, nature lover and humanist, 24 November 2013, Archive Organization http://web.archive.org/web/20060318053230/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr252004/sh1.asp,