Azimeh

“When I say “nations,” I mean “armed marketplaces.” Always.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“The entire corpus of Sappho’s work burned with the great Library of Alexandria, so today we know her only through the bits other writers quoted, shadows of Sappho cast on our cave wall. Time marbled silence throughout the texts, and those gaps, those cavities, beg readers to wonder them full, to complete the poet’s circuits of cognition – twenty-six centuries after they were made.”
― Kaveh Akbar, The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine

“Postwar U.S. policies in Japan, enforced by boots on the ground, succeeded beyond expectations, transforming a bitter foe into America’s strongest ally in Asia.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

“As U.S. forces later discovered in the long Vietnam War, conventional and guerrilla operations are different items; expertise in the one form of warfare does not translate to the other.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949