Harish P

“I do not attach
any exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life is
there to be lived rather than to be written about. My aim
is to search out the manifold experience that it offers,
wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.
I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishment
which does not absorb but rather adds pleasure to
existence. And as for posterity—damn posterity.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Yet I have come to distrust book jackets calculated to prick desire like a Bloomingdale's window, as if you could wear what you read.”
― Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”
― Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham