Famous Quotes | A tear
black with...

A tear
black with mascara
looks like a measuring-string
on her heart,
about to be cleft in half
by the saw
of unbearable separation. - Hla Stavhana
Attribution: Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.), South Indian king, Prkrit poet. translated from The Gthsaptaat of Stavhana Hla by Martha Ann Selby, vs. 153, Nirnaya Sgara Press (1889).

Categories: Love, Prkrit Poet, Separation, Tears

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