F. Sionil Jose Love Quotations

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.