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Haldhar Nag Quotes

born 1950 India

Haldhar Nag (Odia: ହଳଧର ନାଗ; 31 March 1950 - ) is a Sambalpuri poet and writer from Bargarh, Odisha, India. Popularly known as "Lok Kabi Ratna" (meaning "folk poet gem").

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Random Haldhar Nag quote

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Poetry must have real-life connection and a message for the people.

On everyone’s lips there was this talk.
Triumph is never for the poor folk;
Water always downward flows,
Fault to the deprived always goes.

Everyone is a poet, but only a few have the art of giving them shape.

I cannot read, write or understand English so cannot compare the original and translated work.

The money I earn now by selling my body, I shall spend
To buy heaps of dowry, when I go as a bride newlywed.

Like in an heirless clan,
The lamp is lit by the newborn;
Let the wick burn and spread,
The language of Odisha-Western.

Unheralded unsung she is,
In all seven books of Ramayana
For the poet in me, Sati she is,
Even greater than Sita in purity.

For my hunger in my belly I beg,
But selfish I am not
Self-centered you are, better start begging,
Like me from house to hut.

It sees, it knows, it hears, it finds
But it speaks not a word
It stands like a mute witness
With its strong arms spread outward

Let the nectar always flow
From the seven seas
From the moon in the skies
From mother's breast
From noble principles
And from the poet's scribbles

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Haldhar Nag (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.