"They told us if they kill all the lions the wildlife will disappear, so now those who become warriors are those with higher education, not those who kill lions."

"Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!"

"I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander"

"Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be."

"Where can I write my latest account of the body's incarnation? It's the end of what was bound to end! Where is that which ends? Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?"

"This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust..."

"I'll search in mythology and archeology and in every -ology to my old name. one of the goddesses of Canaan will side with me, then swear with a flash of lightning. This is my orphan son"

"The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!"

"A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest."

"If there must be a moon, let it be high, a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian, nor claimed by the goddesses all around us."

"... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs."

"One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions."

"Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life."

"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."

"We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope."

"She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it."

"Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless."

"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." (Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919)

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. (Young India 1924-1926)

Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.