#buddhadeva bose

[majestativa]

You gave me desire, as dark as a moonless night: from that I’ve moulded love, mixing it with the honey of my dreams.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

In your eyes tremble so many skies, deaths, new births.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

All the diabolical powers of the world haven’t been able to destroy me yet.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

Bloom in terror’s grace.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

A slice of the moon. [...] Pleasure and pain, a few words, desire and sorrow, then death’s night, its darkness. — Nothing more.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

I am [...] thirsty for the elixir of eternity.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

I am a seeker of the immortal — and in that quest I love, I only love. I love — that is all.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)

[majestativa]

No doubt he’s somewhat deranged, maybe from grief, or his trespasses, or ’cause he read too many books.

BUDDHADEVA BOSE (বুদ্ধদেব বসু) — Selected Poems of Buddahadeva Bose, transl. by Ketaki Kushari Dyson, (2003)