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“By nature I am not an activist. Mine is a reflective personality. I find in my poetry as well as in films a protective barrier. Both are life at a second remove. Both are representational and not life itself.”
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“Puns give one the opportunity to see simultaneously both sides of the same coin. I value this gift of seeing the sides.”
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“There have been many situations in my life when everything appeared dark. There were many times when events conspired to bring unbearable pressure from all sides.”
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“I often wonder about some peculiar incidences that have happened in my life. According to the theory of synchronicity propounded by Jung these may not be mere coincidences, but plants planted by the Meta – programmer who plans our lives.”
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Poetic quest is an eternal quest, a research in infinity as well as in unity.”
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In a film one sees through the eye: while in literature one sees through the mind. The root difference between the two media is that of visual image verses mental image. The image, a poet weaves consists of a thousand suggestions which are extremely difficult to parallel them in a film. On the contrary, in literature it is the novel that has a mass readership and hence, a novel is eminently suitable to be made into a film and ninety percent of feature films are based on novels.
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“There are mathematical problems in poetic form. Probably this is what made me interested in poetry as well as in mathematis and generally in all the arts and sciences.”
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“It was in love I was most successful more than in anything else, though the pursuit was arduous.”
“Poverty is bad. I don’t mean the poverty of money alone, but also poverty of love, poverty of values, poverty of ethics.”
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The most dearest to me are love, poetry and
maths
