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Mother says it's easy to fall in love but hard to love, and that they are two largely different things. She said she never fell in love with me; she just loved me, and I understood exactly why a mother's love persists in all the places where others subside.
Shayan Das
Trust me, it's not what you've lost that matters, but what you're losing while lamenting over it.
Shayan Das
Darling, when you look at the moon or count the stars in the night sky, notice the gentle breeze fluttering your hair, the raindrops pattering on the rooftop, or relish the redolent aromas invading your nostrils, do these simple instances not tell you that you can still love things desperately even if you don't own them? That there can be love beyond possession, intervals, and distances—a love that assures that even if we cease to belong to each other, we can still come back as the moon, the stars, the breeze, the raindrops, the aromas and exist to be loved desperately by one another without the apprehension of losing.
Shayan Das
They misconstrued my softness as weakness, perhaps oblivious that even the softest of waters can burn, break, cut and freeze people to death.
Shayan Das
If ever in life you'll look back and cry remember it won't be because you could not but because you did not.
Shayan Das
Writing love poems without being loved is perhaps one of the toughest things I do as a poet.
Don't fall for someone who won't pull you up.
Shayan Das
"And what makes a poet so different?" the girl enquired and the boy replied with a smile on his face, "You can end an eternity gazing at the ceiling and doing nothing".
Shayan Das
I know she's my type of girl every time she tells me, "Don't love me for the beauty I have but for the beauty I create".
Shayan Das
Your self-esteem is a double-edged sword. It all depends on the 'self' of self-esteem whether it'll pull you up from the nadir or push you down from the pinnacle.
Shayan Das
My mother always says, "If ever you feel like life's way too unfair to you know that even one as this is a far-flung dream for millions".
Shayan Das
We're all but traders trading days for the stars and nights for the sun.
Shayan Das
Saying she had to be loved was an understatement; she deserved to be worshipped.
Shayan Das
Little did she know in the process of exploring me she would end up discovering more of herself.
Shayan Das
And as you dive deeper into love you get to know how standing by someone is far more consequential than falling for them.
Shayan Das
The poetic urge to draw an analogy between every one thing with every other thing in the universe.
Shayan Das
I would rather cherish nightmares than dreams in life for at least the former has the power to wake me up from my sleep.
Shayan Das
At the end of the day, the only thing you'll sigh over after making a poet fall for you is that you could not become his first love.
Shayan Das
Success to him was to relish the failure of all the inefficacious attempts that altered forms (in the shapes of disheartening remarks, abominations, taunts, agitation, maladies and envious faces) faster than seasons but couldn't resist him moving.
Shayan Das
The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn't portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love.
Shayan Das
To be criticised demands far more talent than to criticise someone else.
Shayan Das
Keep kissing me with your lips, embracing me with your arms and crushing me with your thighs until I eventually melt and start flowing through your veins.
Shayan Das
