A Nostalgist's Map of America Quotes

“Then why let anything remain
when whatever we loved
turned instantly to stone?”
― Agha Shahid Ali, A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems

“There again is memory
at my doorstep --

jasmine crushed under
departing feet.

The moon extinguishes
its silver pain

on the window.”
― Agha Shahid Ali, A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems

“The moon touched my shoulder
and I longed for a vanished love”
― Agha Shahid Ali, A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems