#persian literature

[fragmentsofgrief]

Forough Farrokhzad poetry for today

#persian literature #persian poetry #iranian cinema #modern poetry #forough farrokhzad #mahmoud darwish #foreign languages #poetry by women #poems by women #writers of color #web weaving #text post #contemporary literature #litblr #contemporary poetry #sylvia plath #joan didion #virginia woolf #farsi

[darkphainon]

I'm back home and the first thing I did was to organize my books :)

#bibliomania #bookworm #book photography #books #booklr #dark acadamia aesthetic #aesthetic #my photos #photography #dark academia #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia #literature #russian literature #persian literature

[mehreenkhan]

my heart shook intractably in my chest

from the entreaty of his imploring eyes

— Forough Farrokhzad

#forough farrokhzad #persian poetry #women writers #love poem #poetry blog #poetryblr #persian literature #mehreen khan #romantic academia #literat #desiblr

[raeiyyn]

on love being your homeland

1. amy lowell, the fruit garden path 2. tumblr user @muhtesemz 3. raazi (2018), dir meghna gulzar 4. osama alomar, from "bag of the nation" (trans. c j collins) via @soracities

#being haunted #web weaves #web weaving #compilations #parallels* #mb #on country #on love being your homeland #on love #amy lowell #raazi #raazi (2018) #persian poetry #osama alomar #persian literature #literature #art #bookblr #writing #poetry #bollywood #dark academia quotes #dark academia #on grief #comparitives #ww #webs

[vulnerableagendaofdeath]

The great Persian poet Hafez wrote, "Start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret." I still have no idea what I mean when I say God, but I see it everywhere. I mean it intensely. I write poems and, yes, books about it. I read about it constantly, which seems, counterintuitively, to only deepen its secret. Close your eyes. Imagine in your head a bladeless knife with no handle. Do you see how the image recedes from view the more language I add to it? A bladeless knife. With no handle.

#kaveh akbar #poem #persian literature #persian poetry #god #love poem #romanticism #dark academism #dark acadamia quotes #dark academia #literature quotes #poetry #romantic literature

[hussyknee]

Every time I see Rumi's poems in English it breaks my heart because they're always from The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks, a huckster who doesn't even know Persian and mistranslated and erased Islam from them. The West cannot touch anything without warping it beyond recognition and then hawking it all over the globe to line their own pockets.

I know the translations by AJ Arberry and William Chittock are considered a lot more faithful, but I really want to read one by a scholar from Iran or at least the Middle East. I'm so tired of having to talk to communicate with other Global South cultures through the West.

#colonization #orientalism #islamic poetry #islamic culture #iran #persian literature #cultural appropriation #white supremacy #english literature #rumi #poetry #decolonisation #racism #islamophobia #knee of huss

[kaalbela]

Walking in the Wind by Abbas Kiarostami

#abbas kiarostami #walking in the wind #p #some bookstagram moments #my photography #original photography #bookblr #persian literature

[jocrude]

OK hot take: When you talk about "national literary canons" or whatever, Britain's is BY FAR the most overrated out of any nation except maybe Germany. Dickens, Trollope, the Bronte sisters, could never fucking stand any of them. I'd say my list of best literary canons by nation would be something like:

America

Russia

Persia

And then Britain is somewhere between Antarctica and Hell.

#meme #literature #bookblr #classic lit memes #american literature #british literature #russian literature #charles dickens #anthony trollope #jane austen #bronte sisters #mark twain #ralph waldo emerson #persian literature

[elysianightt]

If only the wind could touch your lips and bring your kisses to me, but then I should be jealous of the wind and ashamed of myself for asking.

Nizami Ganjavi, in Layla and Majnun.

#poetry #classics #persian literature #layla and majnun #nizami ganjavi #romance #novels #books #love #quotes #words #thoughts #literature

[fullruinsprince]

Ghalib Life and Letters, translated and edited by Ralph Russell & Khurshidul Islam

#mirza ghalib #note to poets #farsi literature #persian literature #urdu literature #poetry

[daaneen]

My heart whispered to me once

That one day I will be separated from you

I always knew that day would come and that's why I've always been sorrowful

I would have imagined that we get apart from each other at once,

But I wouldn't have thought that one day you wouldn't even recognize me anymore

What crime did I do that you took yourself away from me?

I had no fault and was innocent .

Why were you overwhelmed by me so soon?

My dear why do you get uninterested so easily?

Who would have expected such disloyalty from you despite my deep loyalty?

When I fell for you, I had no idea you enjoy tormenting

Its a shame , I was unaware how much disloyal you are

Although I experienced such disloyalty from you,

I still believe you are worthy of being called a friend

You think low of me, and imagine me cheap and subtle

Change your way of looking

Poem by Farrukhi Sistani

#iran #persian poetry #persian literature

[khudrang]

rozay ke zarra zarra shavad, ustakhan-e-man

ba shad hanoz dar dil-e-veesham hava e tou

-Amir Khusrau

when my bones are nothing but shattered bits may my heart carry on its quest of Thee

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#two posts in a week what a mad lad #amir khusrau #ghazal #persian poetry #persian literature #asian literature #poetry #ahmad faraz #faiz ahmed faiz #mirza ghalib #jaun elia #urdu poetry #urdu literature #translation #desi academia #dark academia #romantic academia #destiny's rainboww

[kivutark]

Chapter 111. Return of Kay Kavus.

Kay Kavus and his army returned to Iran in a giant cloud of dust, and the entire nation partied. Several army commanders showed up to congratulate Kay Kavus on his great victory, and to congratulate Rostam a little more sincerely. But, as Kay Kavus had the sense to pay them their salaries, everyone stayed quite happy and quite loyal. Continue reading Chapter 111. Return of Kay Kavus.

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#Book of Kings #ferdowsi #Literature #persian #Persian literature #Shah Names #Shahnameh #Shahnameh parody

[bones-ivy-breath]

Railings Around the Crib by Farzaneh Ghavami (tr. Alireza Abiz)

#quote #typography #literature #poetry #railings around the crib #farzaneh ghavami #alireza abiz #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #classic academia #life #iranian literature #persian literature #the self #creation

[bookholichany]

اگر شاهنامه زیباترین داستان اساطیری نیست، پس چیه؟

#translation: #if shahnameh isn't the most epic mythical tale then what is it? #shahnameh #the persian book of kings #ferdowsi #nothing os more satisfactory than reading tales in my mother tongue #persian #persian literature #bookish #bookblr #شاهنامه #فردوسی #literature #dark academia

[wordsofayellowiris]

Your dress blowing in the wind is a war flag

A call to arms,

to the battleground of your hold

Maryam Asady

پیراهنت در باد پرچم جنگی است

که مرا به میدان ِ تنت میخواند…

مریم اسدی

#persian words #farsi #persian literature #poem translation #persian #translator #شعر #persian language #poems and quotes #quoteoftheday #مریم اسدی #شعر فارسی