Parn Abr

“If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
― Peter Handke

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“اشک رازی ست
لبخند رازی ست
عشق راز‌ی ست

اشک ِ آن شب لبخند ِ عشقم بود

قصه نیستم که بگویی
نغمه نیستم که بخوانی
صدا نیستم که بشنوی
یا چیزی چنان که ببینی
یا چیزی چنان که بدانی

من درد ِ مشترکم
مرا فریاد کن ...

درخت با جنگل سخن می ‌گوید
علف با صحرا
ستاره با کهکشان
و من با تو سخن می ‌گویم

نامت را به من بگو
دستت را به من بده
حرفت را به من بگو
قلبت را به من بده
من ریشه ‌های ِ تو را دریافته ‌ام
با لبانت برای ِ همه لب ‌ها سخن گفته ‌ام
و دستهایت با دستان ِ من آشناست”
― احمد شاملو

“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat' - though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory. (Letter #195)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien