You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!

Poetry that emerges from a poet’s mind becomes complete only when it enters into the reader’s sphere of comprehension.

A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness.

I am in no mood to write candle or radio, nor am I willing to write table, pen and paper; I want to write but a poem.

A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.

Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language.

There exists a chance of every poem getting changed while reaching every reader. This ‘getting changed’ is a form of ‘getting translated’, in a way. So, every assimilation of any poem is a translation.