By the River Mandovi Quotes

“One would be foolish to only expect happiness in their life and to cave in like a braying donkey when struck with sorrow.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“Indubitably, readers are independent judges for authors, but social media has caused most of them to abdicate their judgeship.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“One might wonder why I write about love. What can the numdilect offer on the subject? I write about love for the same reason as a priest offers marriage advice!”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“While for some, womanhood, may have been bestowed upon them by birth, it was shoved upon me by society in the most brutish way possible as I was an effeminate boy. I have been conscious of my femininity just as life within my being but social construct did not allow for it. So as I navigated life in my natural and fabulous femininity as a naive boy in the way I spoke, walked, and lived, I was made aware of the woman in me through degrading foul language that parents pass on to their children. This language is used as an assertion of contempt towards effeminate men in Goa, words like: bile, bizuaon huicho, baizon, hijra, chakka, ladies, and fifty-fifty.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“In my humble opinion, a student who desires to major or pursue an M.A in English must focus on being a good writer or teacher or both. . . Choosing the study of literary texts is the most natural form of education one can undertake.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“Literary devices are to literature what salt is to food, sugar is to cake, fragrance is to a rose, and the soul is to the body!”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“Reading verses is like taking in the beauty of nature or the love of our life, one glance is never enough, like our most cherished song played in a loop for hours together.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“There is, in my experience, something malevolent about Instagram that slays discipline and stunts intellectual growth.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“A poet must not shy away from their responsibility to depict the truth and must undertake the creation of verses as an independent judge passing the fairest judgment.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“The main purpose of poetry is to illuminate realities which are at times undecipherable and trapped in history, politics, and society--most often understood at a superficial level.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi

“Poetry is an organic urge to translate a mental and musical play into human language.”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi