Rose Garden
Gulistan
Mehraneh Atashi
“I said, ‘Flowers do not last and unfulfilled are the promises of the garden. Men of wisdom advise against attachment to that which is ephemeral.’ ‘So, what is to be done?’ asked my friend. I replied: ‘For the pleasure of observers and the delight of those present, I shall compose the gulistan (The Flower Garden), whose pages the autumnal wind cannot rend, and whose vernal bliss the passage of time cannot turn to the woes of winter.’” Mehraneh Atashi