The Man Who Would be Queen Quotes

“The horror of immolating another wakes up the child, the dreaming angel, the slumbering god, and casts him into the hell that most men call their lives. Only a poet is forever a child.”
― Hoshang Merchant, The Man Who Would be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions

“Perhaps all our loves are only a pale reflection always of what glows at the heart of the universe; of the love of the outstretched arms on a cross.”
― Hoshang Merchant, The Man Who Would be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions

“Maybe all art is such a re-call, a call beyond the grave.”
― Hoshang Merchant, The Man Who Would be Queen: Autobiographical Fictions