Faiz Ahmad Faiz quotes

“The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!”
-- Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.”
-- Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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“There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.”
-- Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”

“I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.”

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.

“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”

“The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.”

Source : "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

“All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning”

Source : Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster