Persian Literature - The Influence of Persian Literature On World Literature

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“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
They are no wealthier than I;
But with as brave a core within
They rear their boughs to the October sky.
Poor knights they are which bravely wait
The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
Keeping a simple Roman state,
Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“They are all gone into the world of light!
And I alone sit ling’ring here;”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)