2 Quotes by Munira Chowdhury

Poetry is like mirror images to meet yourself…Poetry’s task is to reconcile us to the world — not to accept it at face value or to assent to things that are wrong, but to reconcile one in a larger sense, to return us in love, the province of the imagination, to the scope of our mortal lives

It is as the scent and the colour of the flowers to the texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption.