About Quote by Reza Aslan

“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language…

— Azar Nafisi

At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through…

— Asghar Farhadi

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

— Asghar Farhadi

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and…

— Azar Nafisi

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

— Shirin Neshat

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

— Adrienne Rich

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our…

— Jane Hirshfield

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris