149 Quotes by Suman Pokhrel

Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.

In influencing write-ups, words seem to move despite residing still on paper.

Do not think; I've reached where I am now, by slipping like a landslide or evaporating like a cloud.

Do not think I've reached where I am now by slipping like a landslide or evaporating like a cloud.

I am still alive.

May I take off clothes covering shame at the border, leaving them hanging on dry trees of arrogance, and run by wearing the rays of the sun.

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.

Chance of source language influencing the target language and that of the translator intervening onto the style of original writer are major challenges in literary translation.