“Some days I don't know what is greater. My wisdom, or my stupidity.”
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Famous Sanober Khan Quotes
“May our twilights mix together like breath and breathlessness.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
Source: Turquoise Silence
“when i write of you, my dear i am holding you in the most exquisite ways.”
“poets. have the toughest job in the universe- of turning silence into eloquence.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“may this poetry be the home you will someday come back to.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“the intensity in your eyes burns my pen as i write.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“let me die from having being drunk on indigo skies, my liver... overflowing with stars.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.”
“There is a moon, that rests in the quiet corners of a lover’s lips.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“Love me...with all the abandon of a sudden wild rain.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“And stay, my dear stay... forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“a single poem the thing that can keep me light on my feet, when my soul is heavy with sorrow.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
Source: Turquoise Silence
“give me a pillow of strong ever-dependable shoulders that i can bury my head in.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“A single poem is worth a hundred cozy winter nights kind words and healed wounds.”
“How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to say are lost in words.”
“It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.”
“Your words... I hold them deep like ancient skins hold wrinkles.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“you make autumn mist taste like champagne and turn winter rain into the elixir of life itself.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“How....will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree with my hand eternally woven in yours.”
“poetry. i am not writing it. (make way for me please) it is my skin. dripping with light.”
Source: A touch, a tear, a tempest
“A poem in the heart is worth more than a million dollars in the bank account.”
“in a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling.”
“To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”
“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someone who will fall in love with your silence.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“i have laughed more than daffodils and cried more than June.”