In sensibly three different motions move? The planet earth so steadfast through she seems He also wondered when people mistook spacecrafts with astrological planets but he admired of earth only and to this situation he thought of the following lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost Of these kings in the middle of the sands. 'Your wealth and children are only a temptation, where as Allah! With him is an eternal award'Īlso in one place, he describes how his own people lived happily without possessing any valuable things 'Good and bad people live together under the sun as white and black thread are woven together in a cloth when either one of the black or white thread breaks, the weaver should look into the whole cloth and he should examine the loom also'.Īt the time of his father's death at the age of 102, he felt the following lines at the time of death of Yeats by his friend Auden, were written for his father's death.Īlso he has quoted an inspiring aphorism in Qu'ran when he went to pray after his mother passed away 'When you pray, you transcend your body and become a part of the cosmos which knows no division of wealth, age, caste or creedĪt a later stage when Indira Gandhi's sudden demise happened, he recalled his father's saying When he asked about prayer to his father during his childhood, he quoted the below as his father's reply to his question. 'Bread Baked without love is a bitter bread that feeds but half a man's hunger'. In another occasion, he quoted when he talks about full involvement of doing anything with heart and said, Gibran's quotes are always full of wisdom.

This he has quoted when his father consoled his mother at the time of sending him for further studies to other town.

You may given them your love but not your thoughts. They are all sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. His book Wings of fire not only showing his biography, his achievements and thoughts as rocket scientist but also as a phiolosopher, poet, visionary, leader etc.,įollowing are such quotes and poems and shows a poet in him.

Abdul Kalam has left us with much legacy on many fields and one can see him in different kinds from their own angle.

Wings of fire by apj abdul kalam