Suman Pokhrel quotes

Suman Pokhrel is a Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, and translator known for his contributions to South Asian literature. His works explore themes of love, humanity, and social justice, and are celebrated for their depth and lyrical beauty. He has received several prestigious awards and continues to influence writers and readers across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Here are 70 of his quotes:

Every morning I wake up with the news of bloodshed. I feel my body, desperate to know whether I'm still alive. (Suman Pokhrel)
An uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death. View quote
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I salute my desires with a bow., were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me. View quote
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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. View quote
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Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets. View quote
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Commands- you're sure to hear from above if you're placed down below. View quote
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The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft to be seated on children's eyes. View quote
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Will you please go journeying for your own sake, till I come living a moment of life? View quote
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Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want the fever to grab me forever and want you to be my fever. (Suman Pokhrel)
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. View quote
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I like desires like children and their plays that tease me now and then into knowing life. View quote
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Thank God, my name isn't in the list of those who died or were killed yesterday! View quote
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Not so much be lost as would have No time to look at myself Ever. View quote
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I am tipsy after my own feelings themselves have become wine. I forget myself, world and all. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I asked none why life ends in ways uncertain. View quote
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I believed all along, one day everyone would go mad just to see me sane. View quote
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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. (Suman Pokhrel)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What heart touched is what is touched what heart experienced is what is experienced where heart lived is what is lived. View quote
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Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that I do not see any dreams! View quote
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Suman Pokhrel

Suman Pokhrel - Image
Photo: Dhiraj, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Poet
Born: September 21, 1967
Quotes count: 70
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