Frases de Kuvempu

Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa , conocido como Kuvempu, fue un escritor y poeta canarés, considerado como el poeta más grande de la literatura en canarés del siglo XX. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. diciembre 1904 – 11. noviembre 1994
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Frases célebres de Kuvempu

“Todo niño, al nacer, es el hombre universal. Pero, a medida que crece, lo convertimos en un hombre mezquino (por casta, credo, religión y raza). La función de la educación debería ser convertirlo en el hombre universal original.”

Fuente: " 'Vishwamanava Express', and story behind the name", Deccan Herald (27 de mayo de 2017) https://www.deccanherald.com/content/613839/vishwamanava-express-story-behind-name.html

Kuvempu: Frases en inglés

“When I hear Kannada, my heart leaps up and I am all ears.”

Quoted in A Few inches of Ivory, 24 November 2013, Jstor Organization http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/23001425?uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102981873241,

“It is not correct to say that Valmiki is the only Ramayana poet. There are thousands of Ramayana poets. There is a Ramayana poet in every village.”

He stated when he deviated from the Valmiki Ramayana epic story and was criticized for the changes made. Quoted in [Mandakranta Bose Director of the Center for India and South Asia Research and the Institute of Asian Research University of British Columbia, The Ramayana Revisited, http://books.google.com/books?id=F_vuoXvAUfQC&pg=PA140, 1 September 2004, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-803763-7, 140–]

“In me is the sky, in me lies the earth.”

A couplet he wrote in Kannada, before writing his first full poem in the language.
Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)

“It was a day of blackest deed
When Delhi streets of fame
Did glitter well by cursed greed
Of harsh Timoor the lame.”

From Kuvempu’s writings in English on the historical subject of Timoor’s invasion of India. Quoted here. Poet, nature lover and humanist, 24 November 2013, Archive Organization http://web.archive.org/web/20060318053230/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr252004/sh1.asp,

“When Manmatha kissed Rati, blood from her lips may have spit on earth and blossomed into rose on the plant and kisses the viewer's eyes with its beauty now!”

The first is a poem on flowers translated from a Kannada poem, 'Poovu', and the second is linked mythological story and both are quoted in Poet, nature lover and humanist, 24 November 2013, Archive Organization http://web.archive.org/web/20060318053230/http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr252004/sh1.asp,

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