We have built a civilisation / of sky-high buildings, / of concrete cities, / of disconnected communities

While leaving the institute, a nurse gave me a packet of cigarettes as a token of friendship

go further than/ what the hills have seen/ through their ice pick scars

In myself I find her  She knows me better than myself 

I am a poet because you love me

In my deep sleep, you came, my love—

“I sing the song of equality– Of a country where fresh joy blossoms in every heart

As we continue to grapple with questions of identity, meaning, and societal change, Blake's visionary oeuvre serves as a guiding light

Smith’s framing runs into the same blind spot in other criticisms levelled at student protests, i.e. it detaches the student’s cause from the activists, academics, and journalists, Palestinian or otherwise, who have been documenting Israel’s settler colonial project for 75 years.

When there’s a lull in the air, I get the feeling that I’ve scraped the bottom of my fleshy insides.

Dust patterns have gathered around my landline phone, huddling around the maroon. my fingerprints take some dust off of it, and they rejoice.

The mosque committee was quite displeased with Rashed, their young muezzin.

I wove necklaces of lyrics/ Which you'd wear beautifully

The English poet W.B. Yeats once expressed his profound admiration for Rabindranath Tagore, describing him as “someone greater than any of us”.

You called me close in the moments of grace/ Veiling my delicate senses

You know how that day the wind brought out/ The crazy thoughts I had in me all the while.

Buckets of water I pour on my head; my vision gets blurry./ "The blurrier, the merrier", my mother said.

For poet Abul Hasan Neither the pen nor the camera has changed 

Anyone could see that they were a couple very much in love. Always laughing at each other’s jokes. Finishing each other’s sentences. Name the cliché and you’ll find them living up to it without question. 

Shakespeare’s enduring international appeal is in part due to the remarkable personalities he had invented.