THE INSATIABLY DESIROUS “I”
“Like The Flowing River” by “Paulo Coelho”, read the cover page of the book ,that I picked up from the bookshelf to kill time on a gloomy Saturday morning, as I was too fed up of continuing with my humdrum routine. As read the lines on the first page of the book:
“Be like the flowing river, Silent in the night. Be not afraid of the dark. If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back If there are clouds in the sky, Remember ,clouds, like river, are water, So, gladly reflect them too, In your tranquil depths.”
- Manuel Bandeira
That was it, written on the first page prior to the preface. The rest of the page was blank, as if spellbound in the environ of these inspiring lines, by Manuel Bandeira-a Brazilian poet, which Paulo Coelho had quoted on the starting page of his book.
I read these lines once and I liked them; I read them twice and I loved them....
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