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Ahmad Shamlu

Ahmad Shamlou (Persian: احمد شاملو; December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran.


“They smell your breathLest you have said: I love you,They smell your heart:These are strange times, my dear.From the poem Strange Times, My Dear, in the PEN Anthology of Contemporary Literature”
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