Classical/Traditional Persian
- Abolhasan Saba
- Ali-Naqi Vaziri
- Ali Tajvidi
- Faramarz Payvar
- Hamid Motebassem
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Hossein Dehlavi
- Jalal Zolfonoun
- Mahmoud Zoufonoun
- Mohammad Baharloo
- Mohammad Reza Lotfi
- Mohammad Reza Shajarian
- Saeed Farajpouri
- Moshir Humayoun Habibollah Shahrdar
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“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.”
—Augustus Y. Napier (20th century)
“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)