Suman Pokhrel Quotes

Suman Pokhrel is a multilingual Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator, and an artist who is considered as one of the most important creative voices of South Asia. His works have been acclaimed and are published internationally.Suman Pokhrel is only writer to receive SAARC Literary Award twice. He received this award in 2013 and 2015 for his own poetry and his contributions to poetry and art in general in the South Asian region.

✵ 21. September 1967

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Famous Suman Pokhrel Quotes

“Chance of source language influencing the target language and that of the translator intervening onto the style of original writer are major challenges in literary translation.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“I would regard meanings given by others so far as refreshing boon,
I would still be enamored of rose or any heartless flower's smell
if tender tides of your affection had not suffused
the pollen of my heart with loving aroma.”

<span class="plainlinks"> You are, as You are https://allpoetry.com/poem/11313676-You-are--as-You-are--by-Suman-Pokhrel/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I salute my desires with a bow.,
were it not for them to come and play
mind would be empty just like me.”

Desire http://lifeandlegends.com/suman-pokhrel-translated-dr-abhi-subedi/ <br class="br">From Poetry

“Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that
I do not see any dreams!”

<span class="plainlinks"> May I Not See Dreams http://learningandcreativity.com/may-i-not-see-dreams-poetry-month-special/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I wanted to paint a picture,
in indelible print, across
the canvass of my heart.”

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Once positioned on their(children's) lips,
even the scariest of words
come out as a melodious lisp.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

Suman Pokhrel Quotes about children

“I wonder–
didn’t the Creator really do injustice?
With a power to defeat everyone without any battle,
children are busy at play with the most beautiful moments of their life.
Once they grow conscious of it,
those moments will have gone away
never to return to them.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Even if they (Children) try to pluck it,
the flower submits itself onto their hands.
If it happens to prick their heels,
the thorn scorns itself all its life.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“If they (children) smash, the flower vase assumes a smile
while turning into pieces.
For a chance to be spilled by their hands,
anything they hold gets spilled itself full of happiness.
For a chance to play with them,
water forgets about its own colourlessness.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I like desires like children
and their plays
that tease me now and then into
knowing life.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Desire http://lifeandlegends.com/suman-pokhrel-translated-dr-abhi-subedi/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Even If they (children) fall during their play,
the nature, having come
under the spell of their creative sports,
doesn’t know when they again start to play so full of jest.
Believing that they fall unknowingly
the ground, mostly, does not even hurt them.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“The dream too thinks twice,
gets filtered to go soft
to be seated on children's eyes.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Children http://www.occupypoetry.net/children_1/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

Suman Pokhrel Quotes about life

“Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?”

<span class="plainlinks"> Entanglements http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zl7d1</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“An uneasy rhythm of life
is more life like than an easy death.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Khorampa https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/khorampa/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I asked none
why life ends in ways uncertain.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Khorampa https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/khorampa/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

Suman Pokhrel Quotes

“I wanted my heart to bloom
and shelter a shadow of love”

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Not so much, so much be lost, just
To see the hue, grace, glory gone
Off the face of my beloved
As I’d wake and be conscious.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Entanglements http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zl7d1</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“In influencing write-ups, words seem to move despite residing still on paper.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“I chose none to ask
why the wind was blowing there
chasing the fogs”

<span class="plainlinks"> Khorampa https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/khorampa/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Commands-
you're sure to hear from above
if you're placed down below.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Commands https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/commands/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Through years of my prime
I walked with a heart
crazy about love.”

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Creation does not cease
just because there is darkness!”

<span class="plainlinks"> In Midnight Street http://www.prachyareview.com/poems-by-suman-pokhrel/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“What heart touched is what is touched
what heart experienced is what is experienced
where heart lived is what is lived.”

<span class="plainlinks"> I shall bid no Farewell https://allpoetry.com/poem/11694634--I-shall-bid-no-Farewell-by-Suman-Pokhrel</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“On translating text into the new language as it is in source language, there is a chance of it being emerged as an absurd sentence in the target language making no sense at all. In the attempt to make the translation meaningful to the target language, there exists a risk of the original work getting meddled by the translator’s style.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“If
I'd ever grown prosperous like Shah Jahan was,
I'd not have waited for my beloved's death
before I erected a Taj Mahal.”

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“In literary translations, it is this very articulation of expressions that matters the most to bring home to the readers the full essence of the original text in question.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“Let me not so much be lost in involvements
as would make me incapable of
recognizing the fragrance of the flower
beaming in my own yard.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Entanglements http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zl7d1</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Lampposts look
in the glow of their defeated light
robbed by the fog
but cannot tell
if the streets
lying by stretching limbs in courtyards
are sleeping face downwards or supine.”

<span class="plainlinks"> In Midnight Street http://www.prachyareview.com/poems-by-suman-pokhrel/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I want the fever to grab me forever
and want you
to be my fever”

<span class="plainlinks"> Fever http://www.globalpoetry.org/blog/2015/04/01/fever/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Haunted trees
covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets.”

<span class="plainlinks"> In Midnight Street http://www.prachyareview.com/poems-by-suman-pokhrel/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Thank God,
my name isn't in the list of those
who died or were
killed yesterday!”

<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Not so much be lost as would have
No time to look at myself
Ever.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Entanglements http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zl7d1</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I am tipsy after my
own feelings
themselves have become wine.
I forget myself, world and all.”

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“I believed all along,
one day
everyone would go mad
just to see me sane.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Before Making Decisions https://greysparrowpress.sharepoint.com/Pages/Fall2015Pokhrel.aspx/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“Even after all that, each and every being here believe,
that the heat will be defeated and coolness will prevail.
The experience knows
that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Heat http://asiansignature.com/contemporary-poets/suman-pokhrel/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

“In many a situation, the images that words hide while walking forth are the desired meaning of particular words rather than the word itself. Those words sing and dance by coming out of the paper.”

<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose

“I shall not go out at all
given that my love is here
shall always stay attached to these hearts.
I shall never bid farewell to this place!
But I have to send this body
anyhow from here.”

<span class="plainlinks"> I shall bid no Farewell https://allpoetry.com/poem/11694634--I-shall-bid-no-Farewell-by-Suman-Pokhrel</span> <br class="br">From Poetry

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