Agha Shahid Ali quotes
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“They make a desolation and call it peace.”
-- Agha Shahid AliSource : Agha Shahid Ali (2009). “The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The world is full of paper, write to me”
-- Agha Shahid AliSource : Agha Shahid Ali (1987). “The Half-Inch Himalayas”, p.48, Wesleyan University Press
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“They make a desolation and call it peace.”
Source : Agha Shahid Ali (2009). “The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company
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Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
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Source : Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204
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“Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.”
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