محسن صلاحی راد

“شبانه‌ی 10



شبانه‌ی تُرک‌‌تازی و آتش
شبانه‌ی دهم
شبانه‌ی شهریورِ شَنگ
شبانه‌ی چشم‌های تاتاری
شبانه‌ی مغولیدن
شمشیر شمشیر
گویی
شاه‌‌دختِ سمنگان
انتقام می‌کشد از من
انتقام می‌کشد از تن
چهارنعل
بر سمندِ خورندِ خوارزم و فرارود
از صبحِ سمرقند و بخارا و نیشابور
تا صلاتِ ظهرِ شهریور
شهریورِ شَنگ
شهریورِ آتش
شمشیر شمشیر
پیش می‌آیی
با لب‌خندی بر چشم و
حسرتی بر لب

بازمی‌گردی
به شهرهای خالی‌ات
شهرهای بی‌مردمِ بی‌عشق
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― یاسین محمدی, از شمالِ شرقِ گنجشک‌ها

“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting