Amir Kiani

“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow”
― William Blake

“Hey Clark', he said.'Tell me something good'. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“شتاب کردم که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد
دویدم از پیِ دیوانه‌ای که گیسوانِ بلوطش را به سِحرِ گرمِ مرمرِ لُمبرهایش می‌ریخت
که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد
به روی کاغذ و دیوار و سنگ و خاک نوشتم که تا نوشته بخوانند
که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد
چو گرگ زوزه کشیدم، چو پوزه در شکمِ روزگارِ خویش دویدم
شبانه روز دریدم، دریدم
که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد
چه عهدِ شومِ غریبی! زمانه صاحبِ سگ؛ من سگش
چو راندم از درِ خانه ز پشت بامِ وفاداری درون خانه پریدم که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد
کشیده‌ها به رُخانم زدم به خلوتِ پستو
چو آمدم به خیابان
دو گونه را چُنان گدازه‌ی پولاد سوی خلق گرفتم که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد
اگرچه هق هقم از خواب، خوابِ تلخ برآشفت خوابِ خسته و شیرین بچه‌های جهان را
ولی گریستن نتوانستم
نه پیشِ دوست نه در حضور غریبه نه کنجِ خلوتِ خود گریستن نتوانستم
که آفتاب بیاید
نیامد”
― رضا براهنی, خطاب به پروانه‌ها و چرا من دیگر شاعر نیمایی نیستم

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons