کوزیمو طرحی نوشته و منتشر کرده بود که این نام را داشت: "پیش نویس قانون اساسی یک شهر- جمهوری، همرا با اعلامیه حقوق مردان، زنان، کودکان، حیوانات اهلی و وحشیو نیز پرندگان، ماهی ها، حشرات و گیاهان، از بوته های بلند گرفته تا بوته ها و سبزی ها"! اثر بسیار زیبایی بود که می توانست راهنمای هر نوع دولتی باشد؛ ولی کسی آن را جدی نگرفت و به کار نبست.


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غزل

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می تراود مهتاب


می تراود مهتاب
می درخشد شب ت�...
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در نگاه‌ ات همه‌ي مهرباني‌هاست:
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من
پري كوچك غمگيني را
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سهم من اينست
سهم من ،
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خنیاگر غمگینی ست
که آ�...
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پـرِ پـرواز ندارم
امّا
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و يك...
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،در سرزمین‌ِ من‌
،روزنامه‌ لال‌ به‌ دنیا می‌ آید<...
شیرکو بیکس
مصـراعی سـت از شعـر ورلن
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AZZA BONDOK
در کوچه باد می اید
این ابتدای ویرانیست
آن روز هم �...
FOROUGH FARROKHZAD
دختران شهر
به روستا فکر می کنند
دختران روستا
�...
گروس عبدالملکیان
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عمرو سلامة
تو رفته‌ای
و بحران نوشیدن چای
بی تو در این خانه
پوریا عالمی
اي دوست ،اي برادر، اي همخون
وقتي به ماه رسيدي
تاري...
FOROUGH FARROKHZAD
باید امشب چمدانی را
که به اندازه تنهایی من جا دارد، ب...
سهراب سپهری
آن نخل ناخلف که تبر شد ز ما نبود
ما را زمانه گر شکند، �...
محمدعلی صائب تبریزی
إنني و ماي أختان ، ولطالما تشاجرنا ، ولكننا تصالحنا أيض...
ليزا سي
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محمد قطب
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أحمد مطر
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محمد نجيب
کیستی که من
این گونه به جد
در دیار رویاهای خویش
...
احمد شاملو
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أحمد خيري العمري
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ALI SHARIATI
أتهزأ بالدعاء و تزدريه... و ما تدري بم صنع الدعاء
سها�...
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خشک آمد کشتگاه ِ من
در جوار ِ کشت ِ هم�...
NIMA YUSHIJ
شایع ترین نوع نومیدی آن است که فرد نخواهد خودش باشد.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
هو الخوف جعل آباءكم يحشرونكم و أجدادكم يحشرونكم جماعات...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
فاعترض الناس على هذا القول و قالوا كيف يرضى اللة سبحانة...
أفلاطون
أنت تجد في الشرق أحد اثنين .. تجد من يرفض العلم اكتفاء با...
مصطفى محمود
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STEFAN ZWEIG
سألوا يعقوب، و قد ابيضت عيناه من كثرة البكاء و الحزن عل�...
أحمد خيري العمري
وقتی دردپایان می یابد،دیگر در یاد چه کسی می ماند؟ تنها �...
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A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops
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As a matter of fact, we had already been warned against sliding down the marble banisters, not out o...
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Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards...
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It was on the fifteenth of June, 1767, that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, my brother, sat among us for ...
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That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in s...
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Cosimo did not yet know love, and what is any experience without that? What point is there in riskin...
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Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, histor...
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We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.
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In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the...
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Le imprese più ardite vanno vissute con l'animo più semplice. (Cosimo Piovasco Barone di Rondò)
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Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away ...
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...his life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turb...
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Il bassotto alzò il muso verso di lui, con lo sguardo dei cani quando non capiscono e non sanno che...
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We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bail...
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And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t...
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Ombrosa non c’è più. Guardando il cielo sgombro, mi domando se è davvero esistita. Quel frastag...
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There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad ...
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That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working ...
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Why d’you make me suffer?"
“Because I love you.”
Now it was his turn to get angry. �...
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Si conobbero. Lui conobbe lei e se stesso, perché in verità non s'era mai saputo. E lei conobbe lu...
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So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens b...
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Myśli te zaprawione były pewną goryczą ludzi starych, którzy więcej cierpią nad utratą rzecz...
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Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exerc...
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again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.
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A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
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Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great ...
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Resta-nos esclarecer a parte que nesse golfo fantástico cabe ao imaginário indireto, ou seja, o co...
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La mia ricerca dell’esattezza si biforca in due direzioni. Da una parte la riduzione degli avvenim...
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Penso che siamo sempre alla caccia di qualcosa di nascosto o di solo potenziale o ipotetico, di cui ...
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Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also ha...
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After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city ...
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what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a pa...
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God knows wherebthey are now, the people I receive instructions, or rather-let's come right out and ...
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...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.
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Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story...
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In Chloe, a great city, the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter...
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There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Veni...
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With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpecte...
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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question ...
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Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret,...
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to...
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If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said some...
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...an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief l...
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The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here...
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The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would ne...
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Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I i...
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You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember
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The problem is that remittances [from the U.S.] have made Salvadorans comfortable and they don't wan...
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The problem is that remittances [from the United States] have made Salvadorans comfortable, and they...
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