“bhuule hai.n rafta rafta unhe.n muddato.n me.n ham qisto.n me.n KHud-kushii kaa mazaa ham se puuchhiye” Quote by Khumar Barabankvi
“Read just one verse of Hijr-Nama with a quiet heart and you may find your own reflection hidden between the words of another’s longing” Urdu Poetry Author:Poet Zeeshan Ameer Saleemi
“pas-e-parda bahut be-pardagii hai bahut bezaar hai kirdaar apnaa As on a stage, when the curtain is lifted all appears to be in order. However, things are disordered behind the curtain before the play begins. The poet compares his displeased self with that disorder which is invisible to the world. )” Urdu Poetry Author:Naeem Raza Bhatti
“hai meraa chehra saika.Do.n chehro.n kaa aa.iina bezaar ho gayaa huu.n tamaashaa.iyo.n se mai.n The poet/lover is sick of the day-to-day life and is not participating in it anymore. Now, his face is like a mirror in which spectators (everybody) see their own reflection.” Urdu Poetry Author:Ahmed Ziya
“u.Dne do parindo.n ko abhii shoKH havaa me.n phir lauT ke bachpan ke zamaane nahii.n aate The poet/lover compares children with free birds and childhood with mischievous breeze. In favor of children, he advocates freedom from work and stress because once gone, childhood would never return.)” Urdu Poetry Author:Bashir Badr
“la.Daa kar aa.nkh us se ham ne dushman kar liyaa apnaa nigah ko naaz ko andaaz ko abruu ko mizhgaa.n ko The poet/lover has made himself an easy target for the killing effect of the glance, pride, eyebrows and eyelashes of the beloved. He was so foolish to have fixed his eyes at the beloved.” Urdu Poetry Author:Bahadur Shah Zafar
“karne ga.e the us se taGaaful kaa ham gila kii ek hii nigaah ki bas KHaak ho ga.e The poet/lover had decided to stand up to the beloved and finally gathered courage to complain the negligent attitude of the beloved. Before he could speak anything, she looked at him only once, and it ended everything.” Urdu Poetry Author:mirza ghalib
“hazaaro.n KHvaahishe.n aisii ki har KHvaahish pe dam nikle bahut nikle mire armaan lekin phir bhii kam nikle” Urdu Poetry Author:mirza ghalib
“mujh ko KHvaahish hii Dhuu.nDne kii na thii mujh me.n khoyaa rahaa KHudaa meraaThe poet expresses a morbid lack of desire to seek God. Though finding Him was easy: He was inside the poet. Yet, He remained lying there in the darkness of oblivion.” Urdu Poetry Author:mirza ghalib
“miltii hai zindagii me.n mohabbat kabhii kabhii hotii hai dilbaro.n kii inaayat kabhii kabhii” Urdu Poetry Author:Sahir Ludhianvi
“un ras bharii aa.nkho.n me.n hayaa khel rahii hai do zahr ke pyaalo.n me.n qazaa khel rahii haiThe poet says that there is a strange mixture of shyness and sensuality in the eyes of the beloved. This mixture confuses the lover so much that he can neither express his desire nor suppress it. Therefore, her eyes are like two poison cups causing lover’s death.” Urdu Poetry Author:Akhtar Shirani