“Poetry is the smallest way – it is a small, small way, but it is a way indeed – that the individual body can express its own personhood and value in the face of faceless systems.”

“God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit.As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth.I learned how to find the new moon by looking for the circular absence of stars. [...]I learned God's true language is only silence and breath.”

“In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.”

“[...] its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others.”

“Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.”

“The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God. ...... a way to tell the story. It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played.”

“Ya: Hard Labour Is Only One Way Of Success,- Mehar Ali”