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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

“Tom Pickard, “White Rose” from Hole in the Wall: New and Selected Poems.”
— Anam Sajid, I am We
Poetry
Cover of I am We
“Some people were busy chatting and others were enjoying the music.Her phone rang and she took it out from her clutch to see the notification.”
— Khadija Zahoor, Lost.
Poetry Happiness
Cover of Lost.
“The poems' treatment of untold tales of dark nights, blood chain, common aches and the blooming heart is an absolute portrayal of twentieth century's young mind.”
— Umang Kumar, Chaos Within
Poetry
Cover of Chaos Within
“Looking from this aspect I should say that his poetical writing has brought the tradition of Islamic intellectuality into the contemporary debates and discussions.”
— Aadil Farooq, Inspired Discourses
Poetry
Cover of Inspired Discourses
““The Blue Book” follows a similar pattern to many widely publicized poetry books by conjuring, in vivid colors, the ethereal connection between poetry and love.”
— Ahmed Hasan, The Blue Book- Emotional Poetry Book About Life
Poetry Motivation
Cover of The Blue Book- Emotional Poetry Book About Life
“Kulthoum continued the song from their childhood memory; the song that their mother used to sing the long nights when their father had gone in search of food.”
— Tanzeela k. Hassan, The Variant - Fantasy Adventure Book
Poetry
Cover of The Variant - Fantasy Adventure Book
“My life had been a musical but now it felt as if there was a narrator that read my life out loud and changed its course at its whims.”
— Amna Sikandar Malik, An Autobiography of a Semicolon
Life Poetry
Cover of An Autobiography of a Semicolon
“With the pills, I was in Prozonia; a sickly and impalpable greyness and without them, I was buffeting inside the sound waves of a cacophonous melody.”
— Ahsan Yousaf, The Hours of the Devil
Poetry
Cover of The Hours of the Devil
“At times, it feels the urge to make life a bit deeper, a bit more poetic, a bit more rhymed, and a bit more mystic.”
— Syed Sami Shah, Octoberness
Poetry
Cover of Octoberness
“An aspiring polymath, Shoaib Rashdi spends his time in pursuit of artistic hobbies that include writing fiction and composing music.”
— Shoaib Rashdi, Our Inauspicious Stars
Poetry
Cover of Our Inauspicious Stars
“The chaos within our heart; we kept Some of it became poems andfor some, we wept.”
— Umang Kumar, Chaos Within
Poetry
Cover of Chaos Within
“The tradition of poetry writing has been a significant part of Islamic culture and heritage.”
— Aadil Farooq, Inspired Discourses
Motivation Poetry
Cover of Inspired Discourses
“Daughter of late journalist Ahmed JeevanJee, Zeenat Iqbal HakimJee is a fiction writer and poetess who loves weaving magic with her words.”
— Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee, Short Stories For Adults
Poetry
Cover of Short Stories For Adults
“A music box, gentle humming a melody that held a moment in time, a dream eternal.”
— Justin Morton, Snowfall - Magic Mystery Book
Poetry
Cover of Snowfall - Magic Mystery Book
“Saif ul Islam Khattak is a story writer, poet, social activist and an engineer in the making.”
— Saif Khattak, A Fool's Paradise
Poetry
Cover of A Fool's Paradise
“From quite a while, I have been trying to figure out one perception of love that explains it all yet all I’ve come to is its ashes, scattered & dispersed, let alone the whole fiery universe of it.”
— Syed Sami Shah, Octoberness
Motivation Poetry
Cover of Octoberness
“Aadil has managed to bring this doctrine in his poems which were beautifully written.”
— Aadil Farooq, Inspired Discourses
Poetry
Cover of Inspired Discourses
“What we lost was not only a universe for both of us, but also a man larger than any happiness in life.”
— Ayesha S. Khan, The Freezing Point
Poetry Happiness
Cover of The Freezing Point
“Let me feature this unsettled trance with a rather poetic & raw piece of writing that I wrote nearly two years ago.”
— Syed Sami Shah, Octoberness
Poetry
Cover of Octoberness
“If all poetry collections - particularly those which held deeper reflections about life and spirit - were to include such an opener, they would be more clearly understood and appreciated by their audiences right from the start.”
— Aadil Farooq, Inspired Discourses
Motivation Poetry
Cover of Inspired Discourses
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