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GOLESTAN PALACE - IRAN

the flowers full of night... like sacred smoke

Nina Cassian, from “Part of a Bird” (trans. Brenda Walker & Andre Deletant), Life Sentence: Selected Poems

just realized we got no quotes from gulistan OR yolov in this ravnica set. hell on earth. let my simic kings speak

1955 Gulistan Carpet advertising

Gulistan ou l’Empire des Roses par Mahshid Moshir

Untouched you shrink from a single flame,

whereas I stand still until I am consumed.

If the fire of love has scorched your wings,

look at me: it burned me from head to foot.

- Sa'dī, Gulistan

"Sen bağır ki şiddet sussun"

Golden peacock, from a Gulistan of Saadi (collection of anecdotes called the Rose Garden in Persian)

Made in Tabriz, Iran, Safavid period (ca. 1525-30 AD)

Source: Cleveland Museum of Art 2006.148

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