Mariam Kh

“To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!

- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“Come she said
Stay she said
Smile she said
Die she said

I came
I stayed
I smiled
I died

- Vera”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...] Sometimes, in the midst of all I have been given, I watch the moths in us all. Everybody has a light which they think they cannot live without.”
― Alma Alexander, The Secrets of Jin-shei

“When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.”
― Shams Tabrizi