“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”
― Love Poems
― Love Poems
“ما خیال می کردیم که راه رسیدن به آن ناکجاآبادمان از هر کوچه ای باشد، باشد، قصد فقط رسیدن است، به دست گرفتن قدرت است، حاکمیت سیاسی است. فکر هم می کردیم این چیزها، این دورویی ها، پشت و واروهای هر روزه مان را وقتی به آن جامعه رسیدیم مثل یک جامه قرضی درمی آوریم و می اندازیم توی زباله دانی تالیخ. اما حالا می فهمم تاریخ اصلا زباله دانی ندارد. هیچ چیز را نمی شود دور ریخت”
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“Life is so short. Forgetting is so long”
― Love Poems
― Love Poems
“I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.
When you go through the streets
No one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
At the carpet of red gold
That you tread as you pass,
The nonexistent carpet.
And when you appear
All the rivers sound
In my body, bells
Shake the sky,
And a hymn fills the world.
Only you and I,
Only you and I, my love,
Listen to it.”
― Love Poems
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.
When you go through the streets
No one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
At the carpet of red gold
That you tread as you pass,
The nonexistent carpet.
And when you appear
All the rivers sound
In my body, bells
Shake the sky,
And a hymn fills the world.
Only you and I,
Only you and I, my love,
Listen to it.”
― Love Poems
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