Abbas K. Rizi

“But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“We can say for certain that a writer whose writing appeals mainly to the eye is a bad writer; that if in describing, say, a meeting in a garden he describes roses, lilies, carnations, and shadows on the grass, so that we can see them, but allows to be inferred from them ideas, motives, impulses, and emotions, it is that he is incapable of using his medium for the purposes for which it was created, and is as a writer a man without legs.

Pictures, 1925”
― Virginia Woolf, Oh, to Be a Painter!

“من هزارها گرسنه در خاک هند دیده‌ام و هیچ وقت از گرسنگی حرف نزده‌ام. نه، هیچ وقت. ولی هر وقت رفته‌ام از گلی حرف بزنم دهانم گس شده است. گرسنگی هندی سَبک دهانم را عوض کرده است و من دِین ِخود را ادا کرده‌ام.”
― Sohrab Sepehri, هنوز در سفرم...

“All I can tell you [as an advise] is some things that there are some things that I have thought about for very many years uh this most people don't do that, but I've done several things like that where I've spent many years just in the with some problem in the back of my head and eventually comes up comes!”
― Elliott H. Lieb