Poet Scientist Quotes

“Colonizer of A Different Kind
(The Sonnet)

Only the shape of colonialism
has changed, not the nature.
Tendencies are just as filthy,
rightful heir to animal disaster.

I too am a colonizer,
but of a different kind.
I colonize no home by force,
with words I colonize minds.

Humanitarianism is civilized colonialism -
simpler still, humanitarianism is civilization.
That's the contagion my literature carries,
through my proses and sonnetic revelation.

First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Dropout computer engineer to monk, monk to poet scientist, that's my journey.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“My life is a pilgrimage of truth, by way of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Dropout computer engineer to monk,
monk to poet scientist, that's my journey.
My existence is testament to assimilation,
proof of the wonders beyond exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Sonnets to write before I sleep,
Sciences to humanize before I sleep.
Holiness to naturalize before I sleep,
Rights to initiate before I sleep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Whatever I speak is science,
Whatever I pen is poetry.
Whatever I think is philosophy,
Whatever I sense is psychology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens

“New Year's Eve is the occasion
to take stock of your origin,
so that in the reign of new dawn,
you don't forget where you come from.

I too have evolved plenty, from a
dropout engineer to monk to scientist.
But I didn't stop at scientist, and
evolved further into poet dervish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Poetry, my nationality,
words, my brethren.
To the world I'm monsoon,
for inside I'm barren.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“At the end of the day I'm a behaviorist, and my mission is, not a world rooted in pure logic, nope - my mission is a world rooted in hearty logic and mindful fiction. So naturally I'm not gonna speak the lingo of any particular school of thought, intellectual or theological - rather, I speak in a manner, meant to bring out the best in people from all denominations across the spectrum. In short, there is purpose behind my every phrase, every idiom, every tone, tune, and rhythm - my goal is to engender neither science nor faith, but to establish universal assimilation. To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“My only gift is my heart, my only asset is my brain, my only backup is my backbone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Science is philosophy is theology is poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the capacities of time, to be the most spectacular human in history”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I don't write to be seen,
I write so the world can see.
I don't write to be heard,
I write so you hear humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Pain fuels my pen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Why did my publishing output skyrocket around 2019? Put your conspiracy theories aside, I’ll tell you why. When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her. But then I lost my link to the Balkans, when she grew weary and took the hand of another. I couldn’t write a single word for days, but then, I let the god complex unleashed. That’s about when my writing skyrocketed, as the heartbreak jolted my brain into a hyper-publishing engine. I had all the time in the world, and enough pain to fuel my pen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“While I was starting out I had no idea on how the world of writing and publishing worked. I had no mentor, no guide, no support of any kind whatsoever. I had to learn everything on my own, through trial and error. And the most important point here to note is that, at that point I was completely unaware of my own gift - I had no inkling. Naturally, in those early days I often borrowed ideas from other scientists and philosophers.

However, quite unexpectedly, once my true voice and tone started to awaken, I slowly started cutting ties with all external authority, except, of course, for occasional requirements of specific empirical data. Heck, this self-made and self-sustained legend was so damn proud of his inexhaustible vastness, that he wouldn't even quote his own old works in new ones, let alone others! Every new work must be unapologetically new - or I'd rather not publish at all. That's what conscience does to you - it takes away the slightest inclination of compromise, and turns you into an incorruptible beacon of pure conviction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Any substantially advanced truth is indistinguishable from delusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Everybody has all the answers, I seem to have only questions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The pen is my paradise, the pen is my grave.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Science and poetry are not so different after all. In science, the more you learn, the more you realize, how much you don't know. In poetry, the more you write, the more you realize, you got no clue, how you flow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I have nothing to lose, no reputation, no image, no class.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In the Naskar world, sonnet is not an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter, Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of civilization, indifferent to literary convention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny to contain the vastness of a transcendental human, sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita, and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“What is A Naskar Sonnet (2312)

In the Naskar world, sonnet is not
an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter,
Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of
civilization, indifferent to literary convention.

I weave sonnets around the message,
instead of forcing the message into the sonnets.
Till you cut the cuffs of form, don't touch my works,
if you want method and structure, pursue mathematics.

Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny
to contain the vastness of a transcendental human,
sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita,
and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.

Every mind is infinite, every mind, transcendental,
ape customs castrate the human into farm animal.
Cut the wings of a dove at birth,
and it'll spend its life crawling like vermin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I wear my backbone as battery, brain is my currency, heart is my bedrock, character is my legacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I'm colored, I'm scientist, I'm poet, I'm polyglot - coming from zero money, I won the world with words. Try and get your puny white brains around this existence enigma.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat