कविता वैसे लिखी जानी चाहिए जैसे परस्त्री गमन किया जाता है: भागते-दौड़ते, चोरी-छिपे, ऐसे समय में जिसका कोई हिसाब न हो। और फिर आप ऐसे घर लौट आएँ मानो कुछ हुआ ही न हो।
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.
'हाँ' शब्द इतना छोटा क्यों होता है? इसे सबसे लंबा और सबसे कठिन होना चाहिए, ताकि आप इसे कहने का फैसला पल भर में न ले सकें, ताकि सोचते-सोचते आप इसे कहते-कहते बीच में ही रुक जाएँ।
Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.
Why is the word yes so brief? it should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.
धूप में नहाए, पक्षियों के गीत सुने, ओस की बूंदों को चखा, और केवल उड़ान भरते समय ही उस पत्ते ने पेड़ को देखा और समझ पाया कि वह असल में क्या था।
Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.
Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been.
मेरी एकमात्र उम्मीद यही है कि बाहरी दुनिया चाहे अलग-अलग लोगों और देशों के लिए कैसी भी हो, कम से कम उनकी अंदरूनी दुनिया एक जैसी हो। और अगर मैं इस किताब के ज़रिए अपनी अंदरूनी दुनिया को किसी तरह बयां करने में कामयाब रहा हूँ, तो मुझे बस यही भरोसा है कि अमेरिकी पाठकों के बीच इसकी कोई गूँज ज़रूर सुनाई देगी, या कम से कम अमेरिकी पाठक इस किताब को मेरी अंदरूनी दुनिया के एक तरह के मार्गदर्शक के रूप में देखेंगे, भले ही वह उन्हें कितनी भी अजीब लगे।
The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.
The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.