Munira Chowdhury Quotes

I am a Bengali and a Malaun. Shrieks of Conchshell create fires in my blood.

Poetry is like mirror images to meet yourself…

Poetry's task is to reconcile us to the world — not to accept it at face value or to assent to things that are wrong, but to reconcile one in a larger sense, to return us in love, the province of the imagination, to the scope of our mortal lives

Poetry is the soul of music, something divine, It is at the center and circumference of knowledge; Poetry in my view is the language of the soul demonstrating the most intimate feelings which the tongue cannot articulate. You do not need to be a professor, academic, intellect or a scholar to write poetry, as I believe it is intangible,

Poetry ache with the pain of misremembering, that liminal space between immediate sense and oblivion. They do not presume to have the answers to the questions that they ask, but they leave the reader with impressions which aid in their own pursuit of clarity, poetry should define meaning and clarity through the eyes of the reader. Therefore, if one looks through rose coloured glasses that is acceptable as well the one who takes grim or a bleak view of the writing. It is not a question of right or wrong, it's about how one perceives things. Whatever the reader absorbs is an inner reflection of oneself as poems should. Poetry shouldn't mean but be.

Neither have I played with dolls, nor studied. What a joy to be a fool!