I really think talking about it is tiring and pointless. I mean it is a fact after all that everyone who comes into the world has a date of birth, lives in a city or village, studies at school, and experiences a handful of very ordinary and conventional events that occur when all is said and done for everyone, like falling into the courtyard pool as a child or, for example, cheating at school, falling in love in one's youth, getting married, these sorts of things. But if the point to this question is the explanation of a handful of circumstances and issues relating to one's life work, which in my case is poetry, then I have to say that the time for such a review has not yet arrived, because I have just recently begun dealing with poetry in a serious way.

Forugh Farrokhzad, Four Interviews, pp.12-13
A Lonely Woman Michael Hillamnn p37

Atmosphere which drags people toward ugliness, futility, and crime. I had that crime-engendering bubble in mind. The people are otherwise innocent. It is for this reason that they stand and listen to the sound of fountains. The sensitivity for perceiving beauty has not yet died in them; they just do not have faith anymore. This expression 'petty criminals' means criminals not by choice, but innocent, unfortunate criminals. One can even see some degree of remorse and compassion in this phrase. Forugh Farrokhzad, Four Interviews, pp.66-67 A Lonely Woman Michael Hillamnn p51 Nima was a beginning for meÉ Nima was the poet in whose poetry I saw for the first time an intellectual atmosphere and a sort of human perfection, like Hafez. I who was a reader sensed that I was dealing with a human being, not a handful of superficial emotions and hackneyed words of the dayÉHis simplicity astounded me, especially when, behind this simplicity, I encountered all of the complexities and dark questions of lifeÉIn his simplicity, I found my own simplicity...

Forugh Farrokhzad, Four Interviews, pp.23-25
A Lonely Woman Michael Hillamnn p107

Nima was a beginning for me... Nima was the poet in whose poetry I saw for the first time an intellectual atmosphere and a sort of human perfection, like Hafez. I who was a reader sensed that I was dealing with a human being, not a handful of superficial emotions and hackneyed words of the day... His simplicity astounded me, especially when, behind this simplicity, I encountered all of the complexities and dark questions of life... In his simplicity, I found my own simplicity...

Forugh Farrokhzad, Four Interviews, pp.23-25
A Lonely Woman Michael Hillamnn p107

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