Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Allama Iqbal

people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.
Allama Iqbal

Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle

Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. —Aristotle

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. —Stephane Mallarme