Amir

“باری، ایرانی‌ها بعد از تلاشهای گوناگون، بعد از ۴۰۰ سال ـ با برگشت به گذشته تاریخ خودشان ـ با تشکیل حکومتهای ایرانی و تکیه به زبان فارسی در قرن چهارم هجری، ملتی بودند با هویتی جداگانه و مخصوص خودشان؛ ملت تازه‌ای، نه آن قوم فرسوده و بی‌رمق آخرهای ساسانی، بلکه ملت تازه‌ای تولد یافته بود با آگاهی به هویت خود ـ خودآگاه ـ با دین و تمدنی تازه. گذشته، پشتوانه یا تکیه‌گاه این هویت بود و زبان، جلوه‌گاهش؛ درخت تازه‌ای بود که در آب و هوای اسلام پرورش یافته بود، ام بر زمین خاطرهٔ قومی خود.‏

ـ هویت ایرانی و زبان فارسی”
― شاهرخ مسکوب

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I know too much and not enough”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises