T.R. Shankar Raman
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis

“And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.”
― The Snow Leopard
― The Snow Leopard

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry �
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll �
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
― Selected Poems
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry �
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll �
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
― Selected Poems

“He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!”
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His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!”
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“I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.”
― The Lives of Animals
― The Lives of Animals

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