Alok Mishra Books & Quotes

“No heartbreak can make a poet! Poetry doesn’t stem from a broken heart which fell apart merely because someone left and left a few marks to be felt, dealt with and smelt with emptiness and shallowness of the breast.”

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Book:Thoughts Between Life and Death

Source: Thoughts Between Life and Death

“Solitude, when opted for by one after having a comprehensive experience of the world, makes the ground fertile for the rare union of wisdom and rhythm to generate some quality poetry!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“A new beginning is an illusion. We continue.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“The modern reader must ask: what do I want from literature? Do I merely seek comfort, entertainment, prestige, or am I in search of something nobler—wisdom, empathy, truth? The way we read ultimately shapes who we are. And who we are determines what kind of world we wish to build.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul itself!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past, these personal experiences have to be forged with imagery and wisdom to find a universal resonance.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm and detached mind can observe and absorb at the same time. If you participate, you may find the poetic output tilted towards your bias.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with a detached attitude that readers will find relatable, possibly universal, and also long-lasting, if not everlasting.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies, poets tend to let their thoughts conjure a rhyme in tune with the extraordinary struggles of ordinary life.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an emphatic entry in the public domain with so many expectations, has been circumambulating the corridors of university classrooms and the decision war-rooms of the government-funded and apparently biased award bodies.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“From the actual public discourse of life, poetry, unfortunately, has vanished! Whatever residue is left has the silver touch of verse and aesthetic in the subconscious of the aged population from the bygone era!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Poetry, today, is struggling for its space. Poets are writing poems. Readers are not reading poems. Other poets are reading other poets’ poems. They seldom like or appreciate what others write. Poetry, therefore, has turned itself into an unresolving cycle of paradox!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“When poetry becomes synonymous with examination stress, it is unsurprising that readers abandon it once formal education ends.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Poetry is frequently introduced as an object of dissection rather than an experience of encounter. Students are trained to hunt for metaphors, symbols, and devices before they are allowed to feel the poem. This premature intellectualisation breeds anxiety rather than appreciation.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“It is not the quantity of reading but the quality of engagement that defines literary worth.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a human heart and a curious mind.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Solitude is a powerful tool; the master who uses this tool must have courage, conviction, experience and vision!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Literary criticism, to be precise, and when pursued beyond the boundaries of academic jargon, directly serves the collective consciousness of humanity! It should be carried out to encourage mass participation in the perusal of serious literature or to find seriousness even in the most playfully written literary works. Extending the hypothesis, every author has a thread or two hidden to conceal the life lessons that are layered beneath the entertaining episodes in the storyline. Readers, at large, given their busy and callous lifestyle bereaved of the aesthetic values, may conveniently ignore toiling to reveal those layers; it is, therefore, incumbent upon literary critics to make it happen!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Poetry is the rhythm composed in solitude and distributed to the masses.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Criticism that thrives on exaggeration or selective reading ultimately undermines its own credibility.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Literary criticism must venture into the dark streets of the unconscious and the mildly lit subconscious of the characters and the authors. However, it must not ignore the aesthetic and the apparent value of a literary work.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other hand, is a fully conscious choice that you make.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“The pursuit of wisdom often leads down the path of solitude.”

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“Sometimes by water 'and sometimes by the wind, 'my random lines on sand will be 'erased. What am I now? A ruddy rage? 'He said losing and winning matters not at all! 'He told! Unbecoming is a part of becoming again...”

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Book:Moving for Moksha

Source: Moving for Moksha

“A man is made of emotions, largely, and intellect – wit, humour, rationale and that's it? No! A man is the rob that hides a soul”

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Book:Moving for Moksha

Source: Moving for Moksha

“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only to be rejected. Who knows what I know? Do I know if they know? Who knows all those who know?”

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Book:Thoughts Between Life and Death

Source: Thoughts Between Life and Death

“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the sentimental, and invested in the intellectual, you have the opportunity to assess everything from the outside.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective conscience.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for oneself when God appears! Such is the spiritual gravity of deep, reflective engagement with literature.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“The true critic and the true reader are inextricably bound. They both recognise that literature is not just about plot or character or rhythm or rhyme. It is about meaning. It is about impact. It is about transformation.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“It is not enough to present literature as an object of study; it must be introduced as an experience.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Focus on what you are and what you can rather than what others aren't & can't. You have to win; they don't necessarily have to lose for you!”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“Firm was my resolve and fragile was my heart. I saw many ends and many a start.”

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Book:Moving for Moksha

Source: Moving for Moksha

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Moving for Moksha

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