Saadi

Saadi was imprisoned at age 16, just before the Oslo Accords were signed, for the crime of carrying a Palestinian flag.

"Poverty," says Saadi, "snatches the reins out of the hands of pity," which is true only in one sense.

Hafiz, the poet of love, and Saadi are other great Persian poets deserving at least a glance of investigation.

She was an Oriental poem, in which shone the sun that Saadi, that Hafiz, have set in their pulsing strophes.

That is not very far from Saadi's thought that art is never produced without love.

Saadi had explained that there was no limit to how much of a spiritual drug a man could take.