Everything touches everything.
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.