Quotes from Faiz Ahmed Faiz

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

If dreams are thwarted, then yearning must take their place If reunion is impossible, then longing must take its place.

On the far horizon waved some flicker of light My heart, a city of suffering, awoke in a state of dream My eyes, turning restless, still dreaming, the morning, dawning in this vacuous abode of separation.

It is the dignity with which one goes to his death that is remembered by all, What of life, it comes and goes