“I see sounds, I hear sights, I taste smells, I touch not heaven but things from the underworld, things people do not believe exist, whose shapes the world does not suspect.”

— Laxmi Prasad Devkota

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पागल (The Lunatic)

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Nepali poet 1909–1959

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