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Poetry Quotes

Lines from books that read like verse, and from poets we publish. Urdu carries a rhythm English has to work for, so much of this collection is better read aloud.

50 quotes

یہی اقوال اردو میں 50 شاعری اقوال

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“Nisar Masoom (Nisar Mustafa Sufi) is the great-grandson of the legendary poet, Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum.”
— Nisar Masoom, Habibi
Poetry
Cover of Habibi
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“Yes, poetry indeed is a self-talk but you must know that you have to see everyone and everything through yourself.”
— Syed Sami Shah, Octoberness
Motivation Poetry
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“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
— Maha Tariq, Flawless - Book on Imperfection
Poetry
Cover of Flawless - Book on Imperfection
“The book is titled ‘Ramiz’, because the earliest of these poems were written after that dream.”
— Maheen Ahmed, Ramiz- Grief Poetry Book
Poetry
Cover of Ramiz- Grief Poetry Book
“The poet of the East, Muhammad Iqbal, once noted, ‘It is good to guard intuition with intellect,But sometimes you should let it go alone also.”
— Arbaz Fahad, Time, Distance and Unspoken Love- Novel About Siblings
Poetry
Cover of Time, Distance and Unspoken Love- Novel About Siblings
“Like in case of topaz, I was fascinated by the stone ever since I read the translation of a Spanish poem by Pablo Neruda.”
— Shafaq Hashmi, Durr-e-Najaf- Spiritual Fiction Book
Poetry
Cover of Durr-e-Najaf- Spiritual Fiction Book
“My first class was of poetry and as soon as I went inside, I knew I would not be getting the lavish international standard education I was hoping for.”
— Kanwal Shariq, The Revolution- Political Novel
Poetry
Cover of The Revolution- Political Novel
“To my mom who motivated me, who became my power to face all the criticism, it's because of her that I became a published poet.”
— Musfirah Riaz, Stars in the Night Sky - Poetry Book about Positivity
Poetry
Cover of Stars in the Night Sky - Poetry Book about Positivity
“This book believes that whether it is the outer world or the inner world, every inverse is important.”
— Fakhar.e.Zahra Bukhari, The Abnormally Normal - Self Awareness Book
Poetry
Cover of The Abnormally Normal - Self Awareness Book
“While Rose played dead, she overheard him converse with two other men in Arabic, her head got so light she passed out.”
— richard shekari, Saving Rose Green
Poetry
Cover of Saving Rose Green
“An insidious melody reminiscent of an ice-cream truck from when she was a child began resounding from the start of the lane.”
— Zachery Miller, The Nightcomer: A Morbid Tale #3
Poetry
Cover of The Nightcomer: A Morbid Tale #3
“Prior to his death, we’d finished reading the Psalm of Life, and he had given me quite a lengthy analysis of each verse.”
— Zachery Miller, The Amorphous Horror: A Morbid Tale #2
Poetry
Cover of The Amorphous Horror: A Morbid Tale #2
“In any case, in the contemporary Muslim world, the number of poets and thinkers are not as many as they use to be.”
— Aadil Farooq, Inspired Discourses
Poetry
Cover of Inspired Discourses
“Ahmad Bilal is enthusiast about conveying his feelings and daydreams through words and decrypting life's meaning through his poetry.”
— Ahmad Bilal Yousafzai, THE COMA - Short Story
Motivation Poetry
Cover of THE COMA - Short Story
“The author is a student of MS Computer Science who often escapes from robots and machines and find solace in music, art, and poetry.”
— Faiza Nasir, The ocean of colliding thoughts
Poetry Motivation
Cover of The ocean of colliding thoughts
“The song whose lyrics I scribble in the last pages of my old notebooks and whose tunes are pasted in the vaults of my memory.”
— Mahnoor Naseer, THE ANCIENT SOULS - English Prose Poetry & Short Stories Book
Poetry
Cover of THE ANCIENT SOULS - English Prose Poetry & Short Stories Book
“That perhaps all those songs, poems and stories of a bright, burning circle second to the sun, was something that couldn’t provide the same light, were false?”
— Maheen Ahmed, Ramiz- Grief Poetry Book
Poetry
Cover of Ramiz- Grief Poetry Book
“This arise a new mode of thinking about the differences, the inverses, the dark, the unnoticed, the failures and the abnormally normal.”
— Fakhar.e.Zahra Bukhari, The Abnormally Normal - Self Awareness Book
Poetry
Cover of The Abnormally Normal - Self Awareness Book
“Dust thou art to dust returnest, Wadsworth’s verse came to my mind, like a stray autumn leaf, making its way with the winding path of the fall wind.”
— Zachery Miller, The Amorphous Horror: A Morbid Tale #2
Poetry
Cover of The Amorphous Horror: A Morbid Tale #2
“A change can be both ways, both cases of the elite class are bringing a change in the society in diverse ways.”
— Maha Tariq, Flawless - Book on Imperfection
Poetry
Cover of Flawless - Book on Imperfection
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