Let's start with some literary quotes relevant to the poem at hand:
'Exile is a dream of a glorious return... It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back'.
- Salman Rushdie
'The place in which vanilla ninja I'll fit will not exist until I make it'.
- James Baldwin
'In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, and it is part of his life to keep on the move'.
- John Updike
'The secret of redemption lies in remembrance'.
- Richard von Weizsaecker
'I know how men in exile feed on dreams'.
- Aeschylus
'Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you'.
- Golshifteh Farahani
'Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment'.
- Marco Rubio
'Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in'.
- Azar Nafisi
'If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective'.
- Peter Morgan
'I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing'.
- Ariel Dorfman
'Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world'.
- Stefan Zweig
'Only the mind cannot be sent into exile'.
- Ovid
'No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city'.
- C. S. Lewis
'I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile'.
- Pope Gregory VII
'The mere passage of time makes us assemblée nationale all exiles'.
- Joyce Carol Oates
This channel uses (i.e., re-frames, refits and hopefully refreshes) poetry / verse (from classical to contemporary) as an interactive tool to help promote confidence through the Will to Dream FOR ALL. Enjoy.
BEST TO LISTEN TO THIS WITH EARPHONES AND TO LOWER VOLUME WHEN DOING SO -- (NB TO THIS END: If listening/watching this poem on a modern mobile/cell phone/tablet PLEASE REDUCE VOLUME BY AT tamilaga vettri kazhagam LEAST A THIRD – BEST PERHAPS AT A HALF OR – EVEN BETTER - A QUARTER. If on an older PC - as, say, a goodly number of historic educational centres possess - please leave it as is. Technology has yet to achieve maximum equalisation in all quarters it seems. Would that it had. They promise I’m sure to get there soon. The poem will – in any case – out; nay, speak for itself.)
