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“آمـدي، جـانم به قـربانت ولي حالا چـــــرا ……….. بي‌وفـــــا حالا كه من افـــتاده‌ام از پا چــرا
نوشــدارويي و بعد از مرگ سـهراب آمدي ……….. سنگدل، اين زودتر مي‌خواستي حالا چرا
عـمر ما را مهلت امـروز و فرداي تو نيست ……….. من كه يك امــــروز مـــهمان توام، فردا چرا
نازنينــــــا ما به ناز تو جــــــــواني داده‌ايم ……….. ديگر اكـــنون با جـــوانان ناز كن با ما چــرا
وه كه با اين عـــمرهاي كوته بي‌اعــــــتبار ……….. اينهمه غافل‌شدن از چون مني شيدا چرا
شور‌فرهادم به‌پرسش سربه‌زير افكنده‌بود ……….. اي لب شـــيرين جواب تلخ سر بالا چـــــرا
اي‌شب‌هجران‌كه‌يكدم‌درتوچشم‌من‌نخفت ……….. اين قــــدر با بخت خواب آلود من، لا لا چرا
آسمان ‌چون‌جمع‌مشتاقان‌پريشان‌مي‌كند ……….. در شـــگفتم من نمي‌پاشد ز هم دنيا چرا
درخــزان هجر گل اي بلـبل طبع حـــــــزين ……….. خاموشي شرط وفاداري بود، غـــــوغا چرا
شــــهريارا بي‌حبيب خود نمي‌كري ســفر ……….. اين ســـــفر راه قيامت مي‌روي، تنها چــرا
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― شهریار

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
― Ezra Pound

“What thou lovest well remains,

the rest is dross

What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage”
― Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos

“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.”
― Ezra Pound

“small talk comes from small bones”
― Ezra Pound

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
― Ezra Pound

“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”
― Ezra Pound

“Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
that the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
(excerpt from 'The Garrett')”
― Ezra Pound

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“My mistakes are my life.”
― Samuel Beckett

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
― Samuel Beckett

“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.”
― Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”
― Samuel Beckett

“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
― Samuel Beckett

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot

I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. ”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka