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He expressed anguish in a poetic form when he found the hunter killing the male dove with his arrow.
Source: Ramayana translated by William Buck in: Ramayana https://books.google.co.in/books?id=vvuIp2kqIkMC&pg=PA7, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1 January 2000, p. 7.

“Valmiki stood up and broke free out of that hard anthill. Suddenly he saw all around him many houses of hermits and their families, young trees carefully watered, a retreat cleared from the forest. Four boys ran up to him from the river and cried "The wife of some great warrior weeps by Ganges. She is fair as a Goddess fallen from heaven, all bewildered, all alone, never seen before, with child, and with small gifts tied from the city within a silk cloth beside her. Go to her, welcome her and protect her.”

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Vālmīki Ramayana

In p. 6.
Narada to Valmiki.
Ramayana

“You have now. Coming here, I sang a friend-gathering song. Valmiki, I've seen other skies than these, other worlds, and other friends. People are counting on you… and I can hear the chariot from Ayodhya approaching across Ganga.”

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In p. 6.
Narada to Valmiki
Ramayana

“I have no companions here.”

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In p. 6.
Valmiki to Narada
Ramayana

“I have no skill in any craft, even in words.”

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In p. 6.
Valmiki to Narada
Ramayana

“Would I ever? See how Life goes by, with every creature doing what follows his nature. Master, what can I say to you?”

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In p. 5
Narada to Valmiki looking at him intently
Ramayana

“Sita, stay here in my hermitage, you have found here your father's house in a foreign land, we will care for you as our daughter. Looking at Sita he thought :What a fair woman, how beautiful!”

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In p. 6.
Valmiki to Sita
Ramayana

“And the high mandate of his sire.
Led by the Lord who rules the sky,
The Gods and heavenly saints drew nigh,
And honoured him with worthy meed,
Rejoicing in each glorious deed.
His task achieved, his foe removed,
He triumphed, by the Gods approved.
By grace of Heaven he raised to life
The chieftains slain in mortal strife;
Then in the magic chariot through
The clouds to Nandigráma flew.
Met by his faithful brothers there,
He loosed his votive coil of hair:
Thence fair Ayodhyá's town he gained,
And o'er his father's kingdom reigned.
Disease or famine ne'er oppressed
His happy people, richly blest.”

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Source: King of Siam Rama I "The-Ramayana", p. 28.

“It’s too cold. Away from the worlds, where a little pleasure costs a lot of pain. Don’t make trouble.”

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Valmiki to Brahma who appeared before him. p. 5.
Ramayana

“What a crime! There was not one bit of meat on that little bird. What use is a world run all wrong without a grain of mercy on it?”

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In. p. 7-8.
Perceiving the words thought by Valmiki, Brahma told him "So, by a river, the world's first verse has been born from pity, and love and compassion for a tiny bird has made you a poet. Use your discovery to tell Rama's story, and your verses will defeat Time. As make you poem, Rama's life will be revealed to you, and no word of yours will be untrue.