Lyrics of Life

It is night, in my study. The deepest solitude; I hear the steady shudder in my breast —for it feels all alone, and blanched by my mind— and...

Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping from poverty, that one magical day good luck will soon rain, that goo...

They who widened the Panama Canal (and were classified “silver roll” and “gold roll”), they who repaired the Pacific fleet at California bas...

The dead are getting more restless each day. They used to be easy we’d put on stiff collars flowers praised their names on long lists shrine...

The snowfall is so silent, so slow, bit by bit, with delicacy it settles down on the earth and covers over the fields. The silent snow comes...

लिखो जैसा तुम चाहो  जिस भी अंदाज़ में।  पुल के नीचे बहुत सारा रक्त  बह चुका है सिर्फ़ यह साबित करता हुआ  कि एक ही रास्ता सही है।  कविता में...

One day the apolitical intellectuals of my country will be interrogated by the simplest of our people. They will be asked what they did when...

After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And c...

To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray like a river and our faces vanish like water....

There are five thousand of us herein this small part of the city. We are five thousand. I wonder how many we are in all in the cities and in...

There are blows in life, so powerful…I don't know! Blows as from the hatred of God; as if, facing them, the undertow of everything suf...

जो लोग काम पर लगे हैं वे भयभीत हैं कि उनकी नौकरी छूट जायेगी  जो काम पर नहीं लगे  वे भयभीत हैं  कि उनको कभी काम नहीं मिलेगा जिन्हें ...

औरतें हैं हम खाना नहीं हैं मेज़ पर धरा हुआ छिलो, हड्डियाँ निकालो भर लो अपना पेट कूड़ा नहीं है कूड़ेदान में समा जाने के लिए औरतें हैं हम ...

. . .When the battle was over, and the fighter was dead, a man came toward him and said to him: “Do not die; I love you so!” But the corp...

अकवि क्या है: वह, जो ताबूत और अस्थि-कलश की दलाली करता है? एक जनरल, जो खुद के बारे में ही निश्चित नहीं है? एक पादरी, जिसे किसी चीज पर ...

You start dying slowly if you do not travel, if you do not read, If you do not listen to the sounds of life, If you do not appreciate y...

Our Father which art in heaven Full of all manner of problems With a wrinkled brow (As if you were a common everyday man) Think no more ...

He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk and change the colo...

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' T...

I, like you, love love, life, the sweet delight of things, the blue landscape of January days. Also my blood bubbles over laughing thr...