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“Poetry, today, is struggling for its space. Poets are writing poems. Readers are not reading poems. Other poets are reading other poets’ poems. They seldom like or appreciate what others write. Poetry, therefore, has turned itself into an unresolving cycle of paradox!”
― Alok Mishra

tags: criticism, dr-alok-mishra, poem, poetry, poetry-quotes, reading, thoughts-on-writing, writing

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“When poetry becomes synonymous with examination stress, it is unsurprising that readers abandon it once formal education ends.”
― Alok Mishra

tags: creative-writing, criticism, dr-alok-mishra, english-literature, higher-education, poetry, poetry-quotes, reading, study, writing-quotes

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“Literary criticism must venture into the dark streets of the unconscious and the mildly lit subconscious of the characters and the authors. However, it must not ignore the aesthetic and the apparent value of a literary work.”
― Alok Mishra

tags: academic-research, dr-alok-mishra, english-literature, intellectual-quotes, literary-criticism, literary-quotes, literary-theory, literary-thoughts, reading, writing

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“Only if I knew
that knowing it would bring
a burden I could seldom carry
and ferry among those I know,
only to be rejected.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death

tags: dr-alok-mishra, hindu-philosophy, indian-author, indian-philosophy, indian-poetry, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, spiritual-quotes, thoughtful-poetry

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“When we two parted,
there was no agony in either
of the two
who
lived all our lives together,
so close and near,
and so, so dear
one could hardly guess
one from the other.”
― Alok Mishra, Thoughts Between Life and Death