Literature

“Escrevo, tanto livros como músicas, para me entender melhor.”

“春潮带雨晚来急，野渡无人舟自横。”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“the poet is first and foremost the heart of his people”

“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.”

“My name has made a small noise in the country.”

“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!”

“Символизм вечен и никогда не может увянуть, ибо искусство символично по существу.”

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