Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Armenia I
As a beginning..Read this..its a short poem written by William Saroyan an Armenian Author..it really touches me in deep and makes my whole body tingly everytime i read it!!

"I should like to see any power in this world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people whose history is ended, whose wars have been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, and whose prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy this race! Destroy Armenia! See if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their homes and churches. Then, see if they will not laugh again, see if they will not sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia. "

-William Saroyan


2 Comments:

Blogger Transparently said...

I didn't see this or I would have posted here directly. Great words, powerful, undeterred. I'm urged to ask, when was this written?

Blogger Noush0 said...

Yes Transparently it is!!well as for when it was written I believe in 1968..i`ll check it for you:)and it appears that its not a poem..its a Quote!

for more quotes of William you can visit :
www.kalinian-saroyan.com/saroyan_quotes/quotes_engl.html

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