Bas Itnaa Saa Khwaab Haiiii

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter

Ab to ummeed hi nahi hai usko ru-ba-ru dekhne ki,

Bas ek khwab mein mulaqat ho jaye, to zarurat nahi rahegi marne ki

Tumhein jab ru-ba-ru dekha karenge, ye socha hai bohot socha karenge.

Whenever I’ll get to see you face to face, I think I will think a lot.

— Mohsin Naqvi

Tony Hoagland, from “Peaceful Transition”, What Narcissism Means to Me

WOAH. WAIT A MINUTE. THIS IS JUST...

But what if you are only one dua away from everything you wanted?

ik naam kyā likhā tirā sāhil kī ret par

phir umr bhar havā se mirī dushmanī rahī

I once wrote your name in the sands of the shore

Only to spend a lifetime hating the wind.

Besides, where do you think all the drugs and the hookers are going to be?

plenty of emotions.

My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

- Virginia Woolf

G-guys... I need help.

I want some sher/nazmein/quotes... to say to someone I just met to attempt and describe their beauty. I need a compilation, sort of a thing. Please comply...

Regards.

The Bounty Hunter.

I wish I could write you a song,

So you’ll fall in love with me

I wish I was Orpheus or Pyramus or mirza

I wish I was Mahiwal and you were my Sohni

I hear these stories and you’re the one I think of,

I’m not supposed to, I know, but I’ve got no control.

I want to write down your name,

On a blank piece of paper,

And recite it all day, all night and again.

Like an echo in a cave,

I chant incessantly,

To me it is all the same

Heaven, God, Death and your name.

I wouldn’t turn my head,

I’d trust that you’re with me,

I wouldn’t stop and rest

Until we’d outran the peril

I would build you a boat,

You wouldn’t need a pitcher

I’d slay a lioness, or 108 suitors,

Who threatens you, my rage shall consume.

I wish to fight a war for a cause

Win or lose come home to you

What more do you want?

You’ve got an atheist wishing for you

To a God he doesn’t believe in

For a thing that he can’t get.