Forugh Farrokhzad

Forugh Farrokhzad (28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32.

Quotes

• ترا میخواهم و دانم که هرگز

به کام دل در آغوشت نگیرم

توئی آن آسمان صاف و روشن

من این کنج قفس، مرغی اسیرم

want you, yet I know that never

can I embrace you to my heart's content.

you are that clear and bright sky.

I, in this corner of the cage, am a captive bird...

_The Captive

• ...هوس در دیدگانش شعله افروخت

شراب سرخ در پیمانه رقصید

تن من در میان بستر نرم

بروی سینه‌اش مستانه لرزید

گنه کردم گناهی پر ز لذت

کنار پیکری لرزان و مدهوش

خداوندا چه میدانم چه کردم

در آن خلوتگه تاریک و خاموش

desire sparked a flame in his eyes;

the red wine danced in the cup.

In the soft bed, my body

drunkenly quivered on his chest.

I sinned a sin full of pleasure,

next to a shaking, stupefied form.

o God, who knows what I did

In that dark and quiet seclusion.

_The Sin