Biblio Bat

“در این سرای بی كسی كسی به در نمی زند
به دشت پر ملال ما پرنده پر نمی زند

یكی زشب گرفتگان چراغ بر نمی كند
كسی به كوچه سار شب در سحر نمی زند

نشسته ام در انتظار این غبار بی سوار
دریغ كز شبی چنین سپیده سر نمی زند

دل خراب من دگر خراب تر نمی شود
كه خنجر غمت از این خراب تر نمی زند

گذر گهی است پر ستم كه اندرو به غیر غم
یكی صلای آشنا به رهگذر نمی زند

چه چشم پاسخ است از این دریچه های بسته ات
برو که هیچ کس ندا به گوش کر نمی زند

نه سایه دارم و نه بر بیفکنندم و سزاست
اگر نه بر درخت تر کسی تبر نمی زند”
― هوشنگ ابتهاج

“There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do you?”
― charles bukowski

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories