The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers...but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049584/al-Maarri Profile in Encyclopædia Britannica]

India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]

I don't want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

M. R. Kale, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53790/page/n235/mode/2up Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava Cantos I-VII] (Bombay: Standard Publishing Co., 1917)

Indigenous people mean traitors, Indigenous people are the project of Prothom Alo and India. The ownership of this country (mountains, plains) is equal for everyone.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

AK Azad Shetu as Abul Khayer, a prison officer

We have been a country where people just came in and went out. And that was a very, very healthy way of running our tourism. So this is new to Sri Lanka. So we are anxious to see how it works.

The most excellent of modern poets, ... whom I reverence next to Virgil.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Attar has roamed through the seven cities of love while we have barely turned down the first street.

This is not only a special thing for me but also for my country and all African women.

There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.

One important difference between Jackson's career and those of many others is that he was a child star who became an adult star – a very difficult transition to pull off.