Literature

“Pourquoi les libraires ne cessent-ils de vouloir des préfaces, et pourquoi les lecteurs ont-ils cessé de les lire ?”

“Если что меня спасает от ненависти к жизни, это именно моя прирожденная любовь к поэзии, к красоте всего мимолетного, к тихим маленьким радостям, заключающимся в пожатии руки и в глубоком взгляде.”

“In my early age at the dawn of youth I commenced writing a book on the characteristics of the Imams covering the account of their virtues and masterpieces of their utterances.”

“A writer is a man marked by fate; he is put into the world to lay bare his own soul before the spiritually hungry.”

“Les animaux sont les précepteurs des hommes dans mon ouvrage.”

“A curse of Abu Nuwas in hell contains more poetry than a laudation of Rakâshi’s in paradise.”

“Early in my youth, I began to write a book on the exclusive merits of the Imams.”

“I started reading at the age of four, and at the age of eight began composing poems.”

““老鸦似措大，饥寒则吟。” — “A crow resembles a poor scholar: when hungry and cold, it sings.””

“Ամեն մի հնչյուն, ամեն մի բառ, ամեն մի ձև կամ ոճ մի մեծ ստեղծագործություն է ու մի մեծ աշխարհ։”

“詩難樂府為尤難”

“« un simple soldat de l’armée littéraire »”

“A ja przecież wam powiadam: Krasnoludki są na świecie!”

“Yes, I use a great many quotations; but they are illustrious and true, and, if I am not mistaken, they convey authority pleasurably.”

“常欲得思深语近，韵律调新，属对无差，而风情宛然，而病未能也。”

“In both angelism and devilry, it is a question of intensity – and this is what our literature lacks.”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry.”

“The root of poetry is in its emotions, its branches in its wording, its flowers in its rhyme and voice, and lastly its final culmination in the fruits of its meaning.”