Daniel Nayeri Quotes

“Poets don’t even know when they’re lying. They’re just trying to remember their dreams. They’re trying to remember six thousand years of history and all the versions of all the stories ever told.”

“In America they distrust unhappy people.”

“You are forgetting already. You’re forgetting your own family. And your history.”

“I just wonder if they’ve had that feeling too. The one where you realize it’s your fault that something beautiful is dead.”

“If we can just rise to the challenge of communication—here in the parlor of your mind—we can maybe reach across time and space and every ordinary thing to see so deep into the heart of each other that you might agree that I am like you.”