Poems
Many of his verses are considered as the proverbs of the language.
1. ceruppa_kaalangaLiliLLa SIlam marakkumO mAnushanuLLA kAlam
- Meaning: Old habits(when people were young) will stay with them till they die(or grow up)
2. dIpastambham mahAScaryam eniykkum kittaNam paNam
- Meaning: The artistic work may be majestic, but all are interested in money only
3. Mulapumpodi eetu kidakkum kallinum udoru sourabhyam
- Meaning: The stone below the Jasmine flower where the pollen of the flower falls also have get some quality of its own after years.
— In one of his poems, "Kalanillatta Kalam" (roughly translated as 'Time Without Any Death'), Nambiar wonders how life would be if there were no death. He sees homes crowded with ever-shrinking aged ancestors.
— "Tottodiya Pada" is a poem that describes in witty detail how an army retreats from a losing battle.
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Famous quotes containing the word poems:
“There’s a wonderful family called Stein:
There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein.
Gert’s poems are bunk,
Ep’s statues are junk,
And no-one can understand Ein.”
—Anonymous.
“Suppertime I float toward you
from the stewpot
holding poems you shrug off
and you kiss me like a mosquito.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects, of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)