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I don’t have a particular one but I am inspired by a bunch of enlightenment thinkers and transcendentalists.
Rumi.
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No particular philosopher or poet but Ghalib as a poet is like "mangoe in all fruits". Wish I knew Farsi to understand his Farsi poetry. :)
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My favourite Poet is John Keats and favourite Philosopher is Plato.
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Rumi, Ferdowsi, and as a khatmal, I gotta say Sachay.
I really like Khalil Gibran’s Pity the Nation.
No specific philosopher
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I like that one by Gibran too!
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Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nationt hat wears a cloth it does not weave,
eats a bread it does not harvest,
and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.
Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strong men are yet in the cradle.
Pity the nation divided into into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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Rumi, some of his poems are so meaningful and beautiful, i'm still looking into more persian/ urdu poets can people post some poems by their fav urdu poets with translations too if possible. it would be nice to see the beauty of their words.
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Nisha....try the poetry section......
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Nisha....try the poetry section......
oh oopps i thought this was the poetry section when posted that comment . ok i'll start a thread there :)
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Amjad islam amjad is my fav poet
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Bertrand Russell & Friedrich Neitzsche.
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal and i also like Ibn-e-Insha
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Khalil Gibran and Faiz Ahmed Faiz...
Besides my signature, here's another gem from Gibran...
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Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, "He who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.
And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet."
But I say, not in sleep but in the overwakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;
And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
- Khalil Gibran – The Prophet
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Poetry Iqbal, parveen shakir, Wordsworth and don't kill me but I also liked Milton's paradise lost.I am not much into philosophy but sometimes I read Jibran.
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Ghalib among poets. I have to try Rumi too.
Haven't made up my mind about philosophers. I don't think I can have one favorite philosopher. There are a gazillion of them and they add to philosophy (and my understanding of the world) in their own unique way.