Sanober Khan is a Mumbai-based poet and freelance writer celebrated for capturing life's transient beauty with heartfelt emotion. Her poetry prioritizes genuine feeling over superficiality, inviting readers to slow down and appreciate subtle moments. Sanober's authentic voice encourages embracing emotional depth and mindfulness, inspiring a profound appreciation of everyday experiences and human vulnerability.
"If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea."
"I am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit's another wayfor meto be in tears."
"Do not turn me intorestless watersif you cannot promiseto be my stream."
"Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence."
"Everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry."
"It is to be savored like a seabreeze-whispereddream...in the mysteriousblue minutesbefore dawnlike a secretinfatuation.... like slowlanguorous sipsof green tea... like a lingeringglimpsea self-wrappedparadiselike his name upon my lips."
"I would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings."
"We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm."
"As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night's velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars."
"Our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer's lips."
"I wouldn't mindif life left me...winglessburnt to cindersripped by stormsscattered...like weedscelestially woundedwithout cherry blossomsto perish withbut I would crywith head held in my handsif it left me...unfulfilled."
"I breathe in...the silenceof my own heartaching with tendernesswith memories..Of home."
"This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm."
"Poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence."