Ferdowsi فردوسی
epic poet · Tus, Persia · 940?–1020?
A poet who spent more than thirty years writing the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), an epic of fifty thousand couplets. He is said never to have received the reward he was promised.
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Whoever has knowledge has power. Through knowledge the old heart grows young.
توانا بود هر که دانا بود
ز دانش دل پیر برنا بودShahnameh (Book of Kings), prologue
c. 1010 · Lamenting that he found no patron while he wrote the epic
For many years I bore much hardship, and I never saw a noble, generous man shining on the throne of kings.
بسی رنج بردم به بسیار سال
ندیدم سرافراز بخشنده ای
به گاه کیان بر درخشنده ایShahnameh (Book of Kings)
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