Naser Khosrow ناصرخسرو
poet · traveler · Khorasan, Persia · 1004–1088?
A poet and thinker who, after a dream at forty, gave up office and wine and travelled for seven years, on foot, as far as Mecca and Cairo.
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11th century · The end of a fable in which an eagle, boasting as it flies high, is brought down by an arrow
He looked at the arrow and saw his own feather on it. He said: "Whom shall we blame? What comes upon us comes from us."
زی تیر نگه کرد پر خویش برو دید
گفتا «ز که نالیم؟ که از ماست که بر ماست»Divan of Naser Khosrow
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