Sin Quotes

“The normal world tries to stifle emotion with the noose of its own deadness.”
― Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“In a room as big as loneliness
my heart
which is as big as love
looks at the simple pretexts of its happiness
at the beautiful decay of flowers in the vase
at the sapling you planted in our garden
and the song of canaries
which sing to the size of a window.

from “Another Birth (Tavalodi Digar in Farsi)”
― Forough Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“…the aching, dark delight of embracing a sin.”
― Forough Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“In a room the size of loneliness,
My heart's the size of love.

- Reborn”
― Forugh Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“It's flowers' bloodstained history that committed me to life,
the flowers' bloodstained history, do you hear?”
― Forugh Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“What matters, is to cultivate and nourish one's own positive characteristics until one reaches a level worthy of being a human.”
― Forugh Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorize their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest.”
― Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad