" I’ve mastered the art of silence but this doesn’t mean that their noise doesn’t infuriate me. It does but it cannot deracinate my peace of mind now. To be exact, I still have an active volcano within me but now I can easily neutralize it too and sit all alone for hours, gazing up at the clouds of ashes floating past the moon, listening to the chirping of night birds. "

― Bhuwan Thapaliya , Safa Tempo: Poems New and Selected