Pluck on the Strings of Time

Freedom and liberty, education, emotions and thoughts, ethics, Western literature, Persian literature and rigidity, labor literature, ancient Eastern literature, literature and politics, despotism, idealism and realism, ideology, ideas and style of expression, artistic expression and the suffering of awareness, taste and artist’s backing, prophets and poets and philosophers, experience and imagination and reasoning, tragedy, songs and poetry, translation, imitation and technique in art, solitude, sociology of art, corporeality and spirituality, youth and old age of the artist, cosmopolitanism, elimination of the author in literary movement, movement and pause, truth and imagination, truth and science, theism, theology and predestination, cheerfulness and mysticism, storytelling, love, religion, historical novel, romanticism, novel writing, and more are among the subjects and concepts addressed in “Pluck on the Strings of Time.” This book is the fourth volume in the first collection of the Dictionary of Selected Sayings, which is based on the prose memorials of the most important contemporary Iranian poets. The first three volumes were dedicated to Forough Farrokhzad, Ahmad Shamlou, and Sohrab Sepehri. It is hoped that the Dictionary of Selected Sayings will serve as a record and a resource of the intellectual activities of our enlightened poets and storytellers from the Constitutional Revolution onward and will also contribute to the development of the country’s intellectual thought, which is the foundation of all progress and a basis for joining the global stream of intellectual production.